State Management In ASP.NET And ASP.NET MVC

As we all know HTML is stateless language. It cannot persist state, so every web development framework provides facility to maintain state in one way or another way. There are different techniques available for state management in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. Following is summary of all such techniques for maintaining state.

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State Management in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
2013-03-15 17:03:17 Jinal Desai
As we all know HTML is stateless language. It cannot persist state, so every web
development framework provides facility to maintain state in one way or another
way. There are different techniques available for state management in ASP.NET and
ASP.NET MVC. Following is summary of all such techniques for maintaining state.
Client Based State Management Options
View State
The ViewState property provides a dictionary object for retaining
values between multiple requests for the same page.
Control
State
The ControlState property allows you to persist property information
that is specific to a control and cannot be turned off like the ViewState
property.
Hidden
Fields
A HiddenField control stores a single variable in its Value property and
must be explicitly added to the page.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data that is stored either in a text file on
the client file system or in-memory in the client browser session.
Query
String
A query string is information that is appended to the end of a page
URL.
View
Data(MVC)
ViewData is a dictionary of objects accessible using strings as keys.
View
Bag(MVC)
ViewBag is a dynamic property. It does not require typecasting for
complex objects.
Temp
Data(MVC)
TempData is a dictionary of string key and object value. TempData
keep the information for the time of an HTTP Request. This mean only
from one page to another.
Server Based State Management Options
Application
State
Application state is a global storage mechanism that is accessible
from all pages in the Web application.
Session
State
Session state is similar to application state, except that it is scoped to
the current browser session.
Profile
Properties
Profile Properties is similar to Session State. The profile-properties
feature uses an ASP.NET profile, which is stored in a persistent format
and associated with an individual user.