How does the Multiview control handle its Viewstate?

Question

Does the Multiview control contain the viewstate information for each of its views regardless of whether or not the view is currently visible?

Answer 1

I believe so, yes. It would be quite simple to confirm using a ViewState Decoder (google it, there are tools available from Fritz Onion or as FireFox plugins).

Answer 2

I would have to assume that the viewstate contains information for each of a Multiview's views/controls. Otherwise, there's no way it would be able to keep track of the state of the controls in each view- unless you were using some sort of custom state management.

Answer 3

Yes it does, all the views are still there, just the inactive ones are hidden/disabled.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.multiview_properties.aspx