How to minimize viewstate size of a page in asp.net?

Question

How to minimize viewstate size of a page in asp.net? Please help.

Answer 1

I chose to save the view state on the server in a database itself and not allow it to be passed in the HTML to the client which bloats the page size. You can extend the HiddenFieldPageStatePersister and work around this. I have written a detailed article around this if you wish ...

http://ashishnangla.com/2011/07/21/reducing-size-of-viewstate-in-asp-net-webforms-by-writing-a-custom-viewstate-provider-pagestatepersister-part-12/