Iis6 - Dynamically Adding Controls - Viewstate Is Not Retained After 20 Minutes?
Dec 3, 2010
We have a ASP.net form [.NET 3.5 on IIS 6] that loads controls dynamically. We are able to retain the values in the viewstate as long as the postback happens within 20 minutes. The database also gets updated properly. Everything works as expected.
However, If it takes more than 20 minutes for a user to fill out the form, the controls no longer retain their values during postbacks. The session values are intact, the user authentication is also intact. We tried several things
1) Added machine keys to web.config files - we have 2 web servers load balanced by Windows load balancer
2) We confirmed that the user are routed to the same server - because the sessions are sticky
3) Increased the session timeout to 60 minutes in IIS 6.0
4) Increased the Idle timeout for connection pool to 60 minutes
5) Changed Form authentication ticket timeout to 60 minutes
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My simple question (hopefully with a simple answer) is this:
Why does the viewstate persist for the dropdownlist, and NOT for the table?
I have to fill the table on every page load, but I can fill the dropdownlist once (using Not Page.IsPostBack), and it persists.
NOTE: I have read about the lifecycle of ASP.NET pages, and I have tried placing these same calls in the Init() and PreInit() page events with the same results.
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I'm having a problem with a web app I'm managing. Users starting receiving the following error occasionally:
Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster.
The problem is that it's not a cluster - it's a single Windows 2003 server. After digging around, it appears that adding a machineKey section and some extra attributes to the Pages directive in my web.config resolves this error:
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decryptionKey='DECRYPTION KEY SNIPPED'
validation='SHA1'/>
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After changing these two things in my web.config, the error goes away, but now I have a new problem - Instead of an error that my viewstate is invalid, the app just "Forgets" who my user is, and sends them back to the login page. Now, the users are browsing through the application, and then they're unexpectedly sent to the login page, even after they've already been logged in for a few minutes. While I can't force this to happen, it usually happens within visiting 10-12 different pages, so pretty frequently.
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Jan 14, 2011
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Aug 27, 2010
I have received an error "Validation of viewstate MAC failed".
I am hosting the web site on my own server, so there is nothing like a "Web Farm or cluster". Can you advise what could be the problem with this error.
I only get this error if the page is left inactive for more then 20 minutes and it throws the exception, so users have log-off and login to continue working fine.
See below full error details.
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May 9, 2010
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When ever i left my website idle ...
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Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machineKey> configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster
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I read this article first to try to solve this issue, but I am already loading the controls in the Init phase of the page, yet viewstate is not persisting. Any ideas as to why? (Of note is that this is for a custom module in DNN and I do have some AJAX update panels on the page, though this section is not within an update panel, for what it's worth.)
As an overview of what I've got:
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What is interesting however, and I just realized this as I am typing, is that the Treeview is populated when the page comes back from the postback, so that is only possible if viewstate is being persisted right? (See the page_load code and you'll see that Call PopulateRootLevel(intTreeUserID) which populates the treeview, is not called on postbacks....hmmm.
Any ideas as to why the treeview maintains viewstate but not my ddls???? But though the tree is populated, I do have to explicitly select the node again and set the panel that the detailsview control is on to visible again too....
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Apr 24, 2010
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Jan 14, 2011
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http://forums.asp.net/p/1491790/3814320.aspx
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The problem is that only the first image is being written to the datarepeater.
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