Do I have to use Viewstate in ASP.NET

Question

I am moving from classic ASP to ASP.NET and have encountered what many of you already know as "viewstate". I might be jumping the gun with my assumption, but it looks highly cumbersome. I have developed many ASP forms in the past and never had issues with keeping state. Is there another way OR am I going to have to learn this Viewstate thing in ASP.NET? I am using Visual Studio 2008, VB.NET as the code behind language and Framework v3.5 with SQL Server 2005.

Answer 1

You don't have to. Check out MVC framework. It eliminates ViewState and works as old ASP (at least from this point of view).