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Benefit of not having viewstate in MVC

In this article, we will see the benefit of not having view state in MVC. For that, we will create 2 applications

After that, we will run both the applications and check the rendered HTML using ‘view source’ of the web browser.

Rendered HTML for traditional Web form application

In traditional web application, you can see a hidden field ‘__VIEWSTATE’ that contains forms data in encrypted format

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This is the form data that is submitted to the web server with every post back. So the viewstate adds an overhead.

In MVC, there is no view state so there is no overhead and response time is better as compared to traditional web form application.

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So performance wise asp.net MVC is better as compared to traditional web form application.

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