turning off viewstate didn't work in web.config

[DC Gringo]

I want to turn off viewstate for an application. I added the code below
into my web.config, but I'm still getting lotsa viewstate data in my hidden
form field:

<configuration>
<appSettings>
<Pages EnableViewState="false" />
</appSettings>

.....
</configuration>

 

[Scott Mitchell [MVP]]

Off the top of my head, I believe the <pages> (case is important)
setting goes in the <system.web> section, and *not* in the <appSettings>
section.

FYI, even when you turn off view state on all pages, you will still get
*some* (albeit, very little). For more on why, see:
http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/1608.aspx

I want to turn off viewstate for an application. I added the code below
into my web.config, but I'm still getting lotsa viewstate data in my hidden
form field:

<configuration>
<appSettings>
<Pages EnableViewState="false" />
</appSettings>

....
</configuration>

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Scott Mitchell
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[DC Gringo]

Thank you. The problems turned out to be the "enableViewState" had an
erroneous capital "E" as well as an extra appsettings key...

I copied this straight out of the VS.NET help which has the capital E:

Disabling ViewState

In the example above, I disabled ViewState for the grid by setting its
EnableViewState property to false. ViewState can be disabled for a single
control, for an entire page, or for an entire application, as follows:

Per control (on tag)<asp:datagrid EnableViewState="false" . />
Per page (in directive)<%@ Page EnableViewState="False" . %>
Per application (in web.config)<Pages EnableViewState="false" . />


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