Huge viewstate on v2.0

[John]

I'm having problems controlling viewstate size in ASP.NET 2.0.

I have a repeater, which contains a gridview, which contains another
gridview. All this is databound to produce a 100page report (for printing).
No postback needed, no viewstate needed.

I've set EnableViewState ="false" on everything I can see, including all the
controls, the form and the page itself. But the viewstate is still 10 lines
in notepad (without wrapping!). I assume this is the elusive ControlState
that I can't turn off?

I tried removing the form tag, but that broke the gridviews (they need form
runat="server") .

Any ideas? I can serialize the viewstate to session / db, but frankly that's
stupid in this situation - I just don't need ANY viewstate.

Thanks,

John

PS. I suppose I could bodge a PageWithNoViewS tate class, with a empty
SavePageStateTo PersistenceMedi um() method. But do I really have to do that??

[John]

I wrote the following Page desendent, any better solutions would be
appretiated!

public class NoVSPage : Page
{
protected bool noviewstate = true;

protected override object LoadPageStateFr omPersistenceMe dium()
{
if (noviewstate)
throw new Exception("This page does not support postback");
else
return base.LoadPageSt ateFromPersiste nceMedium();
}

protected override void SavePageStateTo PersistenceMedi um(object viewState)
{
if (noviewstate)
return;
else
base.SavePageSt ateToPersistenc eMedium(viewSta te);
}
}


"John" <js************ @ecclesdeleteth iscollege.ac.uk > wrote in message
news:%2******** *******@TK2MSFT NGP11.phx.gbl.. .

I'm having problems controlling viewstate size in ASP.NET 2.0.

I have a repeater, which contains a gridview, which contains another
gridview. All this is databound to produce a 100page report (for
printing). No postback needed, no viewstate needed.

I've set EnableViewState ="false" on everything I can see, including all
the controls, the form and the page itself. But the viewstate is still 10
lines in notepad (without wrapping!). I assume this is the elusive
ControlState that I can't turn off?

I tried removing the form tag, but that broke the gridviews (they need
form runat="server") .

Any ideas? I can serialize the viewstate to session / db, but frankly
that's stupid in this situation - I just don't need ANY viewstate.

Thanks,

John

PS. I suppose I could bodge a PageWithNoViewS tate class, with a empty
SavePageStateTo PersistenceMedi um() method. But do I really have to do
that??