viewstate在asp.net揭密中的解释

View State

As you saw in the preceding section, when you submit a form built from ASP.NET controls, the data entered into all the form fields is preserved when the form is displayed again. Microsoft calls this automatic persistence of data view state. ASP.NET controls automatically preserve view state.

When you started with the simple HTML form, you did not get any of the benefits of view state. With a standard HTML form, you don't notice any difference between the first time the form is submitted and the seventh time; you must start over with empty form fields every time.

Note that view state does not apply only to the ASP.NET controls that correspond to form elements; all the standard ASP.NET controls preserve their state. For example, you can take a standard HTML <span> tag and make it into an ASP.NET control like this:

<span id="myLabel" Runat="Server">