State management is the process by which you maintain state and page
information over multiple requests for the same or different pages.
There are 2 types State Management:
1. Client – Side State Management
This stores information on the client's computer by embedding the
information into a Web page, a uniform resource locator(url), or a
cookie. The techniques available to store the state information at the
client end are listed down below:
a. View State – Asp.Net uses View State to track the values in the
Controls. You can add custom values to the view state. It is used by the
Asp.net page framework to automatically save the values of the page and
of each control just prior to rendering to the page. When the page is
posted, one of the first tasks performed by page processing is to
restore view state.
b. Control State – If you create a custom control that requires view
state to work properly, you should use control state to ensure other
developers don’t break your control by disabling view state.
c. Hidden fields – Like view state, hidden fields store data in an
HTML form without displaying it in the user's browser. The data is
available only when the form is processed.
d. Cookies – Cookies store a value in the user's browser that the
browser sends with every page request to the same server. Cookies are
the best way to store state data that must be available for multiple Web
pages on a web site.
e. Query Strings - Query strings store values in the URL that are
visible to the user. Use query strings when you want a user to be able
to e-mail or instant message state data with a URL.
2. Server – Side State Management
a. Application State - Application State information is available to all pages, regardless of which user requests a page.
b. Session State – Session State information is available to all pages opened by a user during a single visit.
Both application state and session state information is lost when
the application restarts. To persist user data between application
restarts, you can store it using profile properties.

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