title: Sitefinity - ViewState + Life Cycle for controls?
body: <p>I built a custom control that acts as a wizard and contains other controls within it. I built and tested the control using a blank asp.net webform page and everything was working perfectly. I add the control to a page in SiteFinity and it seems like there is no viewstate. Nothing is saved or reloaded. The page has a huge viewstate blob in page source but when I watch the traffic using fiddler, the _viewstate is sent as empty. The control i build has an update panel. </p>
  
  <p>What's the deal? I've tried to change where I handle things in the life cycle but nothing helps. I'm pretty sure its a viewstate issue. What's going on? How can I get the viewstate to post without doing a full post back?</p>
  
  <p>Yes, I enabled viewstate on the page and the control through sitefinity and I set viewstate enabled for my control and all sub controls. </p>