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User posted You can shorten it but turning off the viewstate for various controls. Gulzar Nazim Aheho Aheho Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Kilhoffer Kilhoffer That 'controlling viewstate' is an article about moving viewstate into sessions to perform better on basic clients like phones.

If you do that and use the default save-viewstate-in-session, it keeps viewstate in session, and only keeps the last X viewstates in the session. But that doesn't mean viewstate expires - that means the session expires, and you have moved viewstate into session instead of using the form variables. I think you're mixing up two different things here. How is "No" flagged as the answer? Viewstate doesn't expire, it's form variables.

Logged in user credentials may expire in this scenario, but that's it. I'm not even sure if wprl's answer is "No". Either way I'm struggling to understand what this answer is trying to say — Andy.

Viewstate does not expire. Kyle Chafin Kyle Chafin 7 7 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. AareP AareP 2, 3 3 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. Mitchel Sellers Mitchel Sellers Sorry to relive this old thread, but new information is available now: Yes, ViewStates expire. Vinicius Vinicius 1, 15 15 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Ryan Lundy Ryan Lundy k 36 36 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

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