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9.3.3 Microsoft .NET session management
In this section, we provide an overview of state management with Microsoft .NET
applications, or, more specifically, ASP.NET. The discussion focuses on the
various objects that participate in state management. In particular, we focus on
session state management by examining the life cycle of a session within
ASP.NET applications, how session objects are identified and options for
persisting session state.
ASP.NET state management objects
State management in ASP.NET is provided at four levels: application, session,
page and request. At each level, a container ...