Data Presentation Controls

Re: Reducing Viewstate for a Repeater Control

SonuKapoor — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:03:01 GMT

You could try to disable the viewstate only on the rows in the ItemCreated event:

If e.Item.ItemType = ListItem.Type.Item or e.Item.ItemType = ListItem.Type.AlternatingItem then
e.Item.EnableViewState = False
End if

John5 — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:45:33 GMT

Yes they wanted to see the 2000 records all at once

I have turned off viewstate for this particular page and implemented a manual postback method

It works but is a bit more complicated than I wanted it to be

Thanks for the reply

delorenzodesign — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:26:23 GMT

One suggestion would be to not display 2000 records at once and use some type of paging.

Can any user actually view 2000 records in a single screen? Or would they need to?

Some links of interest:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20040613.asp
http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/4560.aspx

John5 — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:20:25 GMT

Hello

I have a repeater control displaying about 2000 records in a grid style

The problem is the viewstate that this creates is very large

But I need the itemcommand event to still work, as each row as a 'View details' link

Is there a way I can reduce the viewstate for the repeater, whilst still letting the Itemcommand event to work?

Many thanks