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Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications
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Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

by William Penberthy
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
14h 19m
English
Microsoft Press
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Objective 1.4: Configure state management

A software application needs to store information. For example, even remembering the information typed into a text box requires some state to be maintained. In an ASP.NET MVC 4 application, the browser takes care of that part of the application state. You need to determine how you will maintain information from one screen to the next. The primary way of communication over the Internet is HTTP, which is intended to be a stateless protocol. It doesn’t know anything about the last request, by design, so any state you need to manage has to be done in code. ASP.NET MVC 4 is designed to comply with the stateless nature of HTTP.

Not only do you need to decide what information you need but you also have to figure ...

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