What is max capacity of viewstate

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Good Day,

I am storing a huge dataset that may contain thousands of rows into a viewstate.
Is this a good practice to do like this? If not please suggest some other ways of storing dataset.
What is the max capacity of viewstate?

Thx in dav

Posted 21-Apr-11 19:15pm

Harsha 2

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Ankur^\m/ · Answer 1 · 2011-04-21T19:46:00

Storing huge data in a Viewstate is not recommended. The reasons are;
a) your page becomes very heavy and will take a lot of bandwidth and time to load.
b) ViewState involves extra overload of serializing and deserializing the objects, so involves extra processing time.
c) If not used properly, ViewState will cause performance issues in your page.

So what are your options? You will have to use other alternatives to store the data. Here are some links which will help you understand and use ViewState wisely:
ASP.NET View State Overview[^] (You may directly scroll down to the section - Considerations for Using View State)
ASP.NET State Management Recommendations[^]
ASP.NET 2.0 Performance Guidelines - View State[^]

Hope this helps!

nit_singh · Answer 2 · 2011-04-21T19:21:00

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If you store this much of data in ViewState, then your page will become heavy and will take a lot of time to load, So it is not suggestable to store a lot of data in the ViewState.

Posted 21-Apr-11 19:21pm

nit_singh

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Harsha 2 22-Apr-11 1:42am

Thx for reply,

Could you please suggest any alternate way of doing it

nit_singh 22-Apr-11 2:04am

You can store the data in the Session and when you move out make the Session as null.