ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Re: Viewstate Growth

ricka6 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:09:46 GMT

Thanks for posting the solution.

Re: Viewstate Growth

Sarvis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:32:06 GMT

Ok, so the culprit was Telerik's RadComboBox. More specifically, it was the lack of support for Dynamic Data using RadComboBox. To be even MORE specific:

The workaround for using a RadComboBox with DynamicData is to have a DropDownList with visible set to false, call the PopulateListControl on that DDL and then copy the items to RadComboBox.

This works fine, except when you do that on every postback... I'm guessing it stuffs the entire list into Viewstate when you do it that way, and since I was doing it every postback... the viewstate kept growing.

Is fixed now.

Re: Viewstate Growth

sjnaughton — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:17:30 GMT

I look forward to seeing that, sounds interesting

Re: Viewstate Growth

Sarvis — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:02:55 GMT

Honestly the code here is... complex. I'm basically designing a system that let's me create a heirarchical form, where you can edit child objects as well as the parent object.... the fun part being that some of the child objects don't even exist. So some of the field templates actually create listviews or formviews, and all kinds of events are captured and trapped to make sure the forms stay in synch.

It actually works pretty well except for this one horrible issue... :(

Like I said though, I'll try to narrow down the problem Monday and then maybe I can post a sample that recreates it...

Re: Viewstate Growth

sjnaughton — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:06:54 GMT

Sorry Sarvis, I've not come accorss and issue like this can you post some code e.g. custom pages and custom field templates etc.

Re: Viewstate Growth

Sarvis — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:49:32 GMT

*bump* I really need to get this figured out soon...

Viewstate Growth

Sarvis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:24 GMT

I'm writing a pretty complex web form using ASP.NET Dynamic Data. Several of the controls on this form post back, since there are dependencies between controls. I'm noticing that the viewstate is growing larger with every postback, until after 5 or so there is a long delay between the Render process and the page actually loading in the web browser.

This occurs even if I'm JUST clicking a radio button to cause the postback, without entering any data or any other changes into the form...

I checked the older version of the form, which does not use Dynamic Data, and the viewstate doesn't grow at all... so I'm theorizing that the dynamic data controls are somehow to blame...

Anyone else seen this? Is there a fix for it?