Is there any way to get rid of the Viewstate cluttering up the querystring when the form is posted with GET? I don't want to use method=post and redirect it because it seems microsoft can do it at http://search.microsoft.com/search/s...iew=en-us&st=b - have a look at their code - it clearly uses get. Disabling viewstate has absolutely no effect - it still persists the viewstate. Even when there aren't any controls in the form!

It seems what I wanted to do is impossible using ASP.NET controls as forms must post back to themselves. The workaround I'm using is to simply use a standard HTML form for this part of the site.