I am finding code that Visual Web Developer adds code to my websites which is not properlly formed. The code that it adds does not appear in any of my files and the only way I can see it is by running the application and viewing the source code.

The line in question just seems to contain random letters and numbers and contains two other attributes with a value of "__VIEWSTATE".

Is there a way to get Visual Studio to show this code?

Another problem the W3 validator shows is unescaped ampsands in the title bar. I have clearly put & in when coding an ampsand yet when I run the application my & has been replaced by with an & which is not valid.

Is there any way to get Visual Studio to correct this.

http://www.tgreer.com/aspnet_html_02.html

The viewstate remembers all the info about all the controls on your page. What looks like random gibberish is really that data in base 64 encoding.

If you don't need the functionality it provides, you can turn viewstate off. You can even do that on a page by page basis.