R – ASP.NET MVC (Form login): Validation of viewstate MAC failed

I worked around this by having my view user control inherit from this class instead of ViewUserControl<T> (it's kind of a patch for RenderView). It did the trick for me, hopefully it works for you too.

public class ViewUserControlWithoutViewState<T> : ViewUserControl<T> where T : class {
    protected override void LoadViewState(object savedState) {}

    protected override object SaveControlState() {
        return null;
    }

    protected override void LoadControlState(object savedState) {}

    protected override object SaveViewState() {
        return null;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// extracted from System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="viewContext"></param>
    public override void RenderView(ViewContext viewContext) {
        viewContext.HttpContext.Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.Now);
        var containerPage = new ViewUserControlContainerPage(this);
        ID = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
        RenderViewAndRestoreContentType(containerPage, viewContext);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// extracted from System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="containerPage"></param>
    /// <param name="viewContext"></param>
    public static void RenderViewAndRestoreContentType(ViewPage containerPage, ViewContext viewContext) {
        string contentType = viewContext.HttpContext.Response.ContentType;
        containerPage.RenderView(viewContext);
        viewContext.HttpContext.Response.ContentType = contentType;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Extracted from System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl+ViewUserControlContainerPage
    /// </summary>
    private sealed class ViewUserControlContainerPage : ViewPage {
        // Methods
        public ViewUserControlContainerPage(ViewUserControl userControl) {
            Controls.Add(userControl);
            EnableViewState = false;
        }

        protected override object LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium() {
            return null;
        }

        protected override void SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium(object state) {}
    }
}

I blogged about this some time ago.

See Mauricio Scheffer's answer.

Having the partial views subclass his ViewUserControlWithoutViewState<T> class instead of ViewUserControl<T> solved this for me.