I published an article on this here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;555353
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"Bill" <bill@test.com> wrote in message
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> I've been chasing this problem around for a few days now and its driving[/color]
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> nuts. We keep getting these errors in our web application intermittently.
> I can't cause the problem myself to attempt to reproduce. From the[/color]
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> I've done, people run into this when urlencoding and urldecoding[/color]
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> but I don't think that is the case here. It looks like there's an issue
> with the ViewState...perhaps its getting corrupted or truncated (hence the
> call System.Web.UI.Page.LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMed ium) in the trace
> below.
>
> From reading MSDN, I thought that if a ViewState excpetion occurred, the
> InnerException object was set so then you could retrieve the ViewState[/color]
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> the error occurred and decode it. That doesn't seem to happen in this
> instance.
>
> Anyway, if anyone has seen this issue and has any insight, I'd definitely
> appreciate any help. Thanks!
>
> Invalid length for a Base-64 char array.
>
> Source:mscorlib
>
> Stack Trace: at System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s)
>
> at System.Web.UI.LosFormatter.Deserialize(String input)
>
> at System.Web.UI.Page.LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMed ium()
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