ViewState Collection in ASP.Net

[SouthSpawn]

Hello,

Let's say I am creating a class library project.
This class that I am creating will work for a windows form project and
also a asp.net project.

How can I store something in the "ViewState" collection in a class
library
project?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

I'm just curious. You say it will work on Windows Forms and Web Forms
projects. Windows Forms applications don't have ViewState. How you are
planning to go around this?

 

[SouthSpawn]

Hi Stoitchom,

I was going to create a public property.
The calling class will let the object know if it's a web form app or a
windows form app.

Basically, I just need to know how I can set the viewstate object in a
class library.

 

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

SouthSpawn,

Basically you can't, The ViewState is a property of the
System.Web.UI.Control, unless you inherit from this type you don't have a
view state.
Ofcourse there is a workaround. In your page class you can decalre one
public property that exposes the view state of the page. Then your class can
do something like
((MyPage)System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Handler)MyPublicViewState.

Anyways I'm not exactly sure that it is a good idea an object to save its
data to somebody else's view state. The view state is per control and is the
control's private storage. I belive if one control wants to share its view
state then the control needs to initiate this; to show goodwill so to speak.
This sneeking and using somebody else's resources I personally don't like.