Viewstate decoder

When an ASP.NET page runs, the page goes through a life cycle in which it performs a series of processing steps . These include initialization, instantiating controls, restoring and maintaining state, running event handler code, and rendering.

What is ViewState? ViewState is a client side mechanism. It stores the value in the page itself . Preserving the value of page controls between client to server and server to client is called “roundtrip”. It stores the page or control value in the mode of hidden fields.

ViewState is the method that is used in ASP.NET to preserve page and control value or we can say it is technique to persist the data of page or control value between round trips. It is one of the Client side state management technique.

Quote: ASP.NET MVC does not use ViewState in the traditional sense (that of storing the values of controls in the web page). Rather, the values of the controls are posted to a controller method.

ASP.NET is a free web framework for building great websites and web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript . You can also create Web APIs and use real-time technologies like Web Sockets. ASP.NET Core is an alternative to ASP.NET.