Most people who have worked with ASP.NET web forms know about view state; they may have both benefited from and cursed it, since it allows simple things to be done very easily but also as easily doing very stupid things, like filling up an HTML page with...
You may not be aware that view state (and control state) is included on each UpdatePanel call, even if the controls placed inside it have it disabled. As view state can get quite large, it may be useful to disable posting it during UpdatePanel calls,...