I need a good reference on ViewState.

[wASP]

Hi,

I should have asked this question sooner ...

Does anyone know of a good reference/book that goes into the
particulars of ViewState? ... how it’s put together?

I would like to be able to insert and delete dynamic controls
at random within the hierarchy (like with AddAt)
- from event-driven methods/functions
- without screwing up the ViewState
- so I would have to be able to insert and delete the viewstate objects
associated with those controls into the mechanism for the page.

The books that I have are intros to C# and ASP.NET. The book on ASP.NET
is just an overview - a “See Dick and Jane Reader” as I would call it
- and dedicates maybe 3 pages to dynamic web controls. I need something
more.

The docs provided by Microsoft are so diffuse and incoherent that
I don’t see how anyone short of an Einstein could make sense of it
- especially someone who is new to ASP.NET - or maybe I’m just too
stoopid to make sense of it - I dunno.

So if anyone has read a good reference on the subject - one that can
explain the ViewState (and how to manipulate it) to an idiot like myself
- I would appreciate it if you would clue me in to it.


THANKS!!!


- wASP

 

[Jon Sagara]

Don't know if this is one of the MS docs you were referring to, but it's
worth a look:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/viewstate.asp