Chapter 23. State Management in ASP.NET
OBJECTIVES
Learn what state is and how you use it
Learn different methods of state management
Learn the advantages and disadvantages of each method
Web pages are, by definition, stateless. This means that as you move from page to page, the data from each page is automatically discarded. Because you might need data from one of these previous pages, you need to store that data (or state) as you move from one page to another. There are many techniques you can use to maintain state. Programmers today use Session variables, XML files, databases, and many other proprietary solutions.
State management capabilities are very primitive in ASP when compared to ASP.NET. In ASP, the Session object can only run in-process ...
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