I’m a PHP developer who has to work on ASP.net projects and I’m wondering why every page is wrapped in a form. This just doesn’t make sense to me.
Also What’s with all the hidden input fields especially the “View State” one.
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I’m a PHP developer who has to work on ASP.net projects and I’m wondering why every page is wrapped in a form. This just doesn’t make sense to me.
Also What’s with all the hidden input fields especially the “View State” one.
ASP.Net tries to make it so that the programmers can pretend that the web is a stateful platform, and that it behaves like a desktop application. The ViewState is basically a serialized block of the state of the page when it was generated. When the page gets posted back the server side model gets initialized to the values in ViewState, and then the new values from the posted form are applied.
Part of becoming a decent ASP.Net programmer is learning when to use ViewState and not, because the default is to use it everywhere which causes a lot of bloat in the downloaded page.