Question

Is it better for performance to set EnableViewState to false for all pages and just except some controls that i want to enable their ViewState ?.

And how could i do this in web.config file ?.

Answer 1

You will gain in two areas:

• the pages will be smaller which means faster transmission both from and more importantly to the server
• your server won’t have to serialize/de-serialize as much data

The first point is probably where you will gain most though (in perceived performance that is)