Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

34.2. ASP.NET State Management Techniques

ASP.NET provides several mechanisms you can use to maintain stateful information in your web applications. Specifically, you can:

• Use ASP.NET view state.

• Use ASP.NET control state.

• Define application-level data.

• Use the cache object.

• Define session-level data.

• Define cookie data.

In addition to these techniques, if you want to persist user data in a permanent manner, ASP.NET provides an out-of-the-box Profile API. We'll examine the details of each approach in turn, beginning with the topic of ASP.NET view state.