May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 18m
English
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Chapter 23. State Management in ASP.NET 2.0
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Working with Application State
- Working with Session State
- Working with View State
- State Management in Web Farms
The web is inherently stateless because all web pages are served up using the stateless HTTP (or HTTPS) protocol. That means that there is no protocol-level mechanism that allows a web page to maintain information from one request to the next. Without outside help, web pages cannot maintain information about an application, a user’s session, or even about previous requests for the same page.
This chapter shows you how to manage the various types of state that are critical to all web applications: application state, session state, and view state. Code samples are provided ...