State Management in ASP.NET

As we all know, HTTP or HTTPS is stateless protocol. It just cleans up or we can say removes all the resources/references that were serving a specific request in the past.

Stateless means, whenever we visit a website, our browser communicates with the respective server depending on our requested functionality or the request. In this case HTTP/HTTPs doesn't remember what website or URL we visited, or in other words we can say it doesn't hold the state of a previous website that we visited before closing our browser, that is called stateless.

So our browsers are stateless.

State Management Types

Client-side | Techniques

View State

View State is the method to preserve the Value of the Page and Controls between round trips. It is a Page-Level State Management technique. View State is turned on by default and normally serializes the data in every control on the page regardless of whether it is actually used during a post-back.Please keep in mind though, that while cookies and sessions can be accessed from all your pages on your website, ViewState values are not carried between pages.