Chapter 9. Stateful Services

IN THIS CHAPTER

A stateful service is a Web Service that maintains data between WebMethod calls. Application state may include any piece of information that is required by the application to be stored and possibly recovered at a later stage. This information could be any of the following: user options, hit counts, shopping carts, catalogs, and any other of data that the application might need for the successful execution of its workflow.

State management for ASP.NET Web Services have the exact same options as those ...

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