Is it possible to get vale of viewstate value on next page

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Posted on June 1st , 2009 by Admin

View state is page specific; it contains information about controls embedded on the particular page. ASP.NET 2.0 resolves this by embedding a hidden input field name,__POSTBACK . This field is embedded only when there is an IButtonControl on the page and its PostBackUrl property is set to a non-null value. This field contains the view state information of the poster page. To access the view state of the poster

page, you can use the new PreviousPag

e property of the page:

Page poster = this.PreviousPage;

we can find any control from the previous page and read its state:

Label posterLabel = poster.findControl("myLabel");

string lbl = posterLabel.Text;

Cross-page post back feature also solves the problem of posting a Form to multiple pages, because each control, in theory, can point to different post back URL.