Using Session State
You can’t use a cookie to store a shopping cart. A cookie is just too small and too simple. To enable you to work around the limitations of cookies, ASP.NET Framework supports a feature called Session
state.
Like cookies, items stored in Session
state are scoped to a particular user. You can use Session
state to store user preferences or other user-specific data across multiple page requests.
Unlike cookies, Session
state has no size limitations. If you had a compelling need, you could store gigabytes of data in Session
state. Furthermore, unlike cookies, Session
state can represent more complex objects than simple strings of text. You can store any object in Session
state. For example, you can store a DataSet
or a custom ...
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