In my project, we try to save page state to a temporary location

(session or disk file or whatever), in order to do some other task in

another page, but not lose the data that the user already typed when

returning to finish the first task.



After a lot of searching and trying we found the

"LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium" and

"SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium" methods, which allow the user to use

alternative persistence mediums.



Until here this all sounds exactly like what I am looking for, only one

small detail still disturbs me: it doesn't work. The state of page where

I need the LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium method to be called is a

non-postback state, and so loading of the viewstate is not needed and

hence not called.



anyone?