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Let's say you have a aspx page that does not rely on session, but does rely on viewstate for persistance between postbacks.
If a user is accessing this page, and leaves for a long lunch, will viewstate still be valid when he returns?
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The more data stored in viewstate, the slower the page will load. But to answer your question, there is not a size limit to viewstate.
By default, view state data is stored in the page in a hidden field and is encoded using base64 encoding. In addition, a hash of the view state data is created from the data by using a machine authentication code (MAC) key.
You can check viewstate on executed ASP.NET page by viewsource from browser. There you can find _VIEWSTATE kind of hidden field. ViewState increases the size of the page because page and page control value store in it.
View State is the method to preserve the Value of the Page and Controls between round trips. It is a Page-Level State Management technique. View State is turned on by default and normally serializes the data in every control on the page regardless of whether it is actually used during a post-back.
Viewstate itself does not expire. Since it's posted back in a form, it can be reconstituted any time.
According to MSDN: "...it is possible for view state to expire if a page is not posted back within the session expiration time". So, in a round about sort of way, it can expire if your session does, but viewstate does not directly expire. Since you're not using session state anyway, you don't have to worry about implicit expiration.
Note that I wouldn't have said it expired. That was MS who I quoted in their own article entitled Controlling ViewState
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No ViewState is kept as part of the PostBack process. You can, however, override the Page class's SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium() and LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium(), to implement that behavior if desired. For more information read Understanding the ASP.NET ViewState.
Note that Page ViewState is stored in the Session so if your Session expires, the ViewState will be lost. I wouldn't say this is ViewState expiring, but yes, it will be destroyed after Session timeout.
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