"Third party vendor support forums are swamped with questions like 'I put a GridView onto my CallBack control and now I get a ViewState is corrupt error'. The r

"Third party vendor support forums are swamped with questions like 'I put a GridView onto my CallBack control and now I get a ViewState is corrupt error'. The real answer to this question is not the one supplied: 'this is fixed in the next version'. The real answer is of course 'STOP USING SO MANY ILL-CONCEIVED ABSTRACTIONS AND LEARN FROM YOUR PEERS HOW THE #@$#@% WEB WORKS!'." I've found this to be the case, too, to a surprising degree. I wrote a little about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120777 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120777