Understanding State Management
As I told you at the beginning of this chapter, ASP.NET applications have to manage their state in a different way than client applications. State is managed via some special objects: Application, Cache, Context, Session, and ViewState. All of them work with the Object type, and you use them like dictionaries, so they accept key/value pairs. The next subsections give you explanation and examples.
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