Custom State Management

Up to now, this chapter has covered the built-in functionality needed for state management provided from within the .NET framework.

Custom state management is a term given to user-defined mechanisms that are created to manage state outside of the functionality provided from within the .NET framework. Custom state management is a solution that needs to be developed from scratch. One of the advantages of using the built-in state management functionality is that it suits a vast majority of application state management needs. In contrast, custom state management that is developed for one application may not match the needs of another.

Some of the custom state management scenarios that have been developed include persisting ...

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