ASP.NET View State

Here is a post on ASP.NET View State. It has links to some good articles and decoding tools on view state

Articles to read:
Understanding ASP.NET ViewState - by Scott Mitchell
Speed Up Your Site with the Improved ViewState in ASP.NET 2.0 - by Fritz Onion
ViewState Encoding in ASP.NET 2.0 - by Fritz Onion
How do I reduce this ViewState thing? - by Bertrand Le Roy
ASP.NET 2.0: ViewState Numbers - by Dino Esposito
Cool ViewState Decoder - by Scott Guthrie
ViewState: All You Wanted to Know - by Paul Wilson
Tip on Saving ViewState on Server - by Paul Wilson
ASP.NET ViewState = Appendix? - by Scott Hanselman
ASP.NET ViewState: Pox on mankind? or clever like a fox? - by Scott Hanselman
Moving ViewState to the Session Object and more Wrongheadedness - by Scott Hanselman
Thoughts on grids and viewstate - by Dino Esposito

Decoding Tools:
ViewState Decoder 2.1 - by Fritz Onion
Page ViewState Parser - by Paul Wilson
ViewStateAnalyzer 2.0.0 - by Cristian Civera (via Scott Guthrie)
ASP.NET ViewState Helper - by Binary Fortress Software
ASP.NET ViewState Helpler Fiddler 2 Extension - by Binary Fortress Software