When page is to be posted back to the server, browser collects the current values of each control and pastes it together into a string. This postback data is then sent back to t
You'd probably want to use a ViewState decoder as well. You can get them in Browser extensions, and use ones off the web. Scott Gu recommends one here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2003/02/16/2495.aspx. The ViewState should tell you all you need to know of persisted server properties.