As we all know HTML is stateless language. It cannot persist state, so every web development framework provides facility to maintain state in one way or another way. There are different techniques available for state management in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. Following is summary of all such techniques for maintaining state.

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State Management in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
2013-03-15 17:03:17 Jinal Desai
As we all know HTML is stateless language. It cannot persist state, so every web
development framework provides facility to maintain state in one way or another
way. There are different techniques available for state management in ASP.NET and
ASP.NET MVC. Following is summary of all such techniques for maintaining state.
Client Based State Management Options
The ViewState property provides a dictionary object for retaining
View State
values between multiple requests for the same page.
The ControlState property allows you to persist property information
Control
that is specific to a control and cannot be turned off like the ViewState
State
property.
Hidden A HiddenField control stores a single variable in its Value property and
Fields must be explicitly added to the page.
A cookie is a small amount of data that is stored either in a text file on
Cookies
the client file system or in-memory in the client browser session.
Query A query string is information that is appended to the end of a page
String URL.
View
ViewData is a dictionary of objects accessible using strings as keys.
Data(MVC)
View ViewBag is a dynamic property. It does not require typecasting for
Bag(MVC) complex objects.
TempData is a dictionary of string key and object value. TempData
Temp
keep the information for the time of an HTTP Request. This mean only
Data(MVC)
from one page to another.
Server Based State Management Options
Application Application state is a global storage mechanism that is accessible
State from all pages in the Web application.
Session Session state is similar to application state, except that it is scoped to
State the current browser session.
Profile Properties is similar to Session State. The profile-properties
Profile
feature uses an ASP.NET profile, which is stored in a persistent format
Properties
and associated with an individual user.