What is State Management and what are the different ways to maintain a state in .Net?

Web pages are recreated each time a page is posted to a server. In traditional Web programming, this would ordinarily mean that all information associated with the page and the controls within the page would be lost with each round trip.

To overcome this inherent limitation of traditional Web programming, the ASP.NET page framework includes various options to help you preserve changes when Managing the State. The page framework includes a facility called view state that automatically preserves property values of the page and all controls on it between round trips.

However, you will probably also have application-specific values that you want to preserve. This can be done using state management options.

Client-Based State Management Options: View State Hidden Form Fields Cookies Query Strings

Server-Based State Management Options: Application State Session State Database Support

Written by Sandeep Mogulla, Webmaster at www.startvbdotnet.com

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