Taming the Microsoft .NET ViewState with SCL
Summary:
OpenSTA is a free, open source, HTTP/S load, stress, and performance testing tool with features rivaling many commercial load-testing tools. When load testing Microsoft .NET applications with OpenSTA, one of the first issues that the script developer encounters is managing the ViewState parameter. This article details a solution for capturing and replaying with the .NET ViewState parameter using OpenSTA. It also discusses practical performance tuning issues associated with .NET and using "ViewState."