34.9. The Role of the <sessionState> Element
At this point in the chapter, you have examined numerous ways to remember information about your users. As you have seen, view state and application, cache, session, and cookie data are manipulated programmatically in more or less the same way (via a class indexer). As you have also seen, Global.asax has methods that allow you to intercept and respond to events that occur during your web application's lifetime.
By default, ASP.NET will store session state in-process. The plus side is that access to the information is as fast as possible. However, the downside is that if this AppDomain crashes (for whatever reason), all of the user's state data is destroyed. Furthermore, when you store state data as ...
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