ViewState for Datalists

[Diffident]

Hello All,

I have a question on datalists. I have 5 datalists on a page and when I try
to view the "ViewSource", the value for the __VIEWSTATE is empty. How do
datalists persist their values?

I am not binding the datalist each and every time. Strangely whenever I try
to access datalist elements from Datalist_ItemCommand it is maintaining it's
viewstate. How is this possible?

Thanks for your help.

[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

Perhaps the SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium and LoadPageState... are
overloaded somewhere and the viewstate is being stored somewhere else..

Karl

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"Diffident" <Di*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello All,

I have a question on datalists. I have 5 datalists on a page and when I
try
to view the "ViewSource", the value for the __VIEWSTATE is empty. How do
datalists persist their values?

I am not binding the datalist each and every time. Strangely whenever I
try
to access datalist elements from Datalist_ItemCommand it is maintaining
it's
viewstate. How is this possible?

Thanks for your help.

[Diffident]

Yes Karl, you are absolutely right. We have been overriding those two
methods. Thanks for pointing me out!

"Karl Seguin [MVP]" wrote:

Perhaps the SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium and LoadPageState... are
overloaded somewhere and the viewstate is being stored somewhere else..

Karl

--
http://www.openmymind.net/
http://www.fuelindustries.com/
"Diffident" <Di*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DC**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello All,

I have a question on datalists. I have 5 datalists on a page and when I
try
to view the "ViewSource", the value for the __VIEWSTATE is empty. How do
datalists persist their values?

I am not binding the datalist each and every time. Strangely whenever I
try
to access datalist elements from Datalist_ItemCommand it is maintaining
it's
viewstate. How is this possible?

Thanks for your help.