ASP.NET State Management

Learn to manage application state, session state, cookie state, and view state in ASP.NET. Excerpt: Before we begin discussing state management in ASP.NET, let's get one thing straight: Attempting to manage state in Web applications goes against the fundamental design principles of the Web. One of the primary goals of the Web and its underlying protocol, HTTP, is to provide a scalable medium for sharing information. Adding user state inherently reduces scalability because the pages shown to a particular user will be different from those shown to another user and thus cannot be reused or cached.