Fixing bottlenecks

Now that you have pinpointed the bottlenecks to prioritize, skip to the appropriate subsection to find out how to fix those bottlenecks.

ViewState

ViewState is such an integral part of the ASP.NET environment that it is very easy to get to a situation where your pages are carrying more ViewState than they need to.

This section first shows how to find out which controls are responsible for most of the ViewState on a page. You then see how to disable ViewState. After that, we get to solutions for actually reducing ViewState.

Note

Preserving state by preventing refreshes

Remember that ViewState is a way to remember the state of controls on the page across page refreshes. This means that you can get rid of ViewState completely if you simply do not refresh the page and instead, always use AJAX-style asynchronous requests.

To explore this further, refer to chapter 11.

Seeing ViewState generated by each control

In the Pinpointing bottlenecks section, we learnt how to find the total...