The state information is invalid for this page and might be corrupted. (Only in IE)

Question

Can anybody help me out with this exception. I have tried couple of fixes but nothing worked. I am getting this exception only in IE(7, 8 and 9).

When i load the pa

Answer 1

I know this has been answered but here are a couple of other options:

1). If you're doing a web service call via jquery .load() you can just remove the viewstate upon return using loads callback parameter

$('#myDiv').load('/MyPage.aspx', null, function(){ 
     $('.aspNetHidden', this).remove(); // removes viewstate from returned aspx html
});

2). Using the Html Agility Pack You can do this same thing in a web service before rendering the returned control. Assume you're calling a web service which loads a UserControl.ascx in the service and then renders it's html before returning.

[WebMethod(EnableSession = true)]
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptMethod]
public string GetControlHtml()
{

// do stuff to get the control you want

....

Page page = new Page();
HtmlForm form = new HtmlForm();
var ctl = (MyControlsNameSpace.Controls.MyControl)page.LoadControl("Controls\\MyControl.ascx");

page.Controls.Add(form);
form.Controls.Add(ctl);
StringWriter result = new StringWriter();
HttpContext.Current.Server.Execute(page, result, false);

// Extension Method RemoveViewStateFromControl
var MyControlsHTML = result.RemoveViewStateFromControl();
return MyControlsHTML;

}

.....

// In an extensions class....
public static string RemoveViewStateFromExecuteControl(this StringWriter writer)
    {
        HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument Doc = new HtmlDocument();
        Doc.LoadHtml(writer.ToString());
        var Divs = Doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div");
        if (Divs != null)
        {
            foreach (var Tag in Divs)
            {
                if (Tag.Attributes["class"] != null)
                {
                    if (string.Compare(Tag.Attributes["class"].Value, "aspNetHidden", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) == 0)
                    {
                        Tag.Remove();
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        return Doc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml;
    }