Diff between View state & Session state

I would also recommend buying a book on ASP.NET development to cover these sort of basics.

from the code project Abhijit jana's article on session and View state are interesting.

checkout the following links

ViewState

Session[^]


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refer this for difference between Viewstate and Session:->

http://www.coolinterview.com/interview/9109/
http://www.dotnetspider.com/forum/ViewForum.aspx?ForumId=6591



Best to gain knowledge about Session State:->



http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178581.aspx

Both ViewState and SessionState are ASP.NET state management techniques.

In case of ViewState, the page KeyValue collection will be serialized and converted to Base64 and written on your page. So you can see the data if you go View ->Source.

Session stays in the server memory. It determines your session data based on the Session Id. When Session timeouts the server clears all the data associated with your session.
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Check this link, this will help you to understand more about State Management in ASP.Net.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/75x4ha6s.aspx[^]

It's right here in the beginner section of ASP.Net for View State and Session State. It's a nice beginner level tutorial, which i find it great in understanding.

View State: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/BegViewState.aspx

Session State: href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ExploringSession.aspx

Hope this helps !!

-Ron.

ViewState is used to store data that can be used on postback to the same page whereas Session is also used to store data but the data stored in Session can be used anywhere in the webapplication. Only serializable objects can be stored in ViewState. ViewState information is rendered on the page in encrypted form when the page is rendered on browser whereas session data is stored on server.

Both are meant for mentaining or storing the values.
Scope of ViewState is only to page.
Scope of Session is across a user.