ASP.NET State Management

Application state includes any piece of information or data that affects the behavior of the application: catalogs, shopping carts, user options, lists of reviews, and hit counters are all examples. State management can be complex because a wide variety of usage patterns, data types, and access methods are available to application developers building state-based solutions.

ASP.NET provides easy-to-use application-state and session-state management facilities that are familiar to ASP developers and readily compatible with all other .NET Framework APIs.

In This Section

• Application State
  Provides an introduction to application state.
• Session State
  Provides an introduction to session state.
• Passing Server Control Values Between Pages
  Describes how to pass information between Web Forms pages.

Related Sections

• Creating ASP.NET Web Applications
  Provides an overview of ASP.NET applications.