User control (ascx) and properties

Question

The only way I\'ve found to persist property values within a user control is to use the ViewState.

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Answer 1

It's not too bad--that is pretty much exactly how the built-in controls work and generally will lead to expected behavior. Best bet is to just selectively disable ViewState when you don't need to persist these values across postbacks.

You also might want to look into ControlState--it is a separate "bag" that people can't disable, and is used for stuff like the GridView where there are some things that one can't turn off via viewstate because it breaks the control.