Question

I have read that viewstate is not there in asp.net MVC application.
I am doing model validation. Now if i have two text boxes on my page,and i am doing required filed validation for both of them in model. This validation is done on server side on click of a button. I will fill one text box and click on submit button. It does the validation and returns the result saying second field is required. At this time value of the first text box is retained. So can you tell me how this text box is retaining the value even after postback?

Answer 1

The value of the textbox is bound to the Model value.

Upon validation failure the page is redisplayed with it’s Model in the state it was when the submitted (i.e. with a value for the first textbox) and any ModelState Errors added.

No viewstate coming in to play 😉