Gets a dictionary of state information that allows you to save and restore the view state of a DataControlField object across multiple requests for the same page.
Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls Assembly: System.Web (in system.web.dll)
A data control field's view state is the accumulation of all its property values. To preserve these values across HTTP requests, ASP.NET server controls use this property, which is an instance of the StateBag class, to store the property values. The values are then passed as a variable to an HTML hidden input element when subsequent requests are processed. For more information about saving server control view state, see View State Overview.
View state is enabled for all server controls by default, but there are circumstances when you will want to disable it. For more information, see Developing High-Performance ASP.NET Applications.
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.