Insight State management

softMind IT Tutorial: Maintaining Session in MVC

In ASP.net we used following state management tricks. Ofcourse not all but of the tricks we can still use in MVC build  applications.

Client-Based State Management Options

• View State -- NOT IN MVC
• Control State -- NOT IN MVC
• Hidden Fields
• Cookies
• Query Strings

Server-Based State Management Options

• Application State
• Profile Properties
• Session State

Levels of state management :

1. Single or multiple page level: State management at single as well as multiple page level i.e., managing state between page requests.
2. User level: State should be preserved as long as a user is running the application.
3. Application level: State available for complete application irrespective of the user, i.e., should be available to all users.
4. Application to application level: State management between or among two or more applications

Session is maintained  in MVC using :

1. Tempdata
2. viewdata
3. viewbag