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Which various modes of storing ASP.NET session ?

InProc:- In this mode Session state is stored in the memory space of the Aspnet_wp.exe
process. This is the default setting. If the IIS reboots or web application restarts then session
state is lost.
StateServer:- In this mode Session state is serialized and stored in a separate process
(Aspnet_state.exe); therefore, the state can be stored on a separate computer(a state server).

SQL SERVER:- In this mode Session state is serialized and stored in a SQL Server
database.
Session state can be specified in <sessionState> element of application configuration file. Using
State Server and SQL SERVER session state can be shared across web farms but note this comes
at speed cost as ASP.NET needs to serialize and deserialize data over network again and again.

Where do you specify session state mode in ASP.NET ?

<sessionState mode=SQLServer
stateConnectionString=tcpip=192.168.1.1:42424"
sqlConnectionString=data source=192.168.1.1; Integrated Security=SSPI
cookieless=false
timeout=20"
/>
Above is sample session state mode specified for SQL SERVER.

What are the other ways you can maintain state ?

Other than session variables you can use the following technique to store state :

Hidden fields

View state

Hidden frames

Cookies

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Query strings

What are benefits and Limitation of using Hidden fields ?

Following are the benefits of using Hidden fields :

They are simple to implement.

As data is cached on client side they work with Web Farms.

All browsers support hidden field.

No server resources are required.

Following are limitations of Hidden field :

They can be tampered creating a security hole.

Page performance decreases if you store large data, as the data are stored in pages itself.

Hidden fields do not support rich structures as HTML hidden fields are only single valued.
Then you have to work around with delimiters etc to handle complex structures.
Below is how you will actually implement hidden field in a project
<input id="HiddenValue" type="hidden" value="Initial Value"
runat="server"NAME="HiddenValue">

What is ViewState ?

Viewstate is a built-in structure for automatically retaining values amongst the multiple requests
for the same page. The viewstate is internally maintained as a hidden field on the page but is
hashed, providing greater security than developer-implemented hidden fields do.

Does the performance for viewstate vary according to User controls ?

Performance of viewstate varies depending on the type of server control to which it is applied.
Label, TextBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, and HyperLink are server controls that perform well
with ViewState. DropDownList, ListBox, DataGrid, and DataList suffer from poor performance
because of their size and the large amounts of data making roundtrips to the server.

What are benefits and Limitation of using Viewstate for state management?

Following are the benefits of using Viewstate :

No server resources are required because state is in a structure in the page code.
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Simplicity.

States are retained automatically.

The values in view state are hashed, compressed, and encoded, thus representing a higher
state of security than hidden fields.

View state is good for caching data in Web frame configurations because the data is cached
on the client.
Following are limitation of using Viewstate:
Page loading and posting performance decreases when large values are stored because view
state is stored in the page.

Although view state stores data in a hashed format, it can still be tampered

because it is stored in a hidden field on the page. The information in the hidden field can also be
seen if the page output source is viewed directly, creating a potential security risk.
Below is sample of storing values in view state.
this.ViewState["EnterTime"] = DateTime.Now.ToString();

How can you use Hidden frames to cache client data ?

This technique is implemented by creating a Hidden frame in page which will contain your data
to be cached.
<FRAMESET cols="100%,*,*">
<FRAMESET rows="100%">
<FRAME src="data_of_frame1.html"></FRAMESET>
<FRAME src="data_of_hidden_frame.html">
<FRAME src="data_of_hidden_frame.html" frameborder="0" noresize
scrolling="yes">
</FRAMESET>
Above is a sample of hidden frames where the first frame data_of_frame1.html is visible and
the remaining frames are hidden by giving whole col section to first frame. See allocation where
100 % is allocated to first frame and remaining frames thus remain hidden.

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What are benefits and limitations of using Hidden frames?

Following are the benefits of using hidden frames:

You can cache more than one data field.

The ability to cache and access data items stored in different hidden forms.

The ability to access JScript variable values stored in different frames if they come
from the same site.
The limitations of using hidden frames are:

Hidden frames are not supported on all browsers.

Hidden frames data and be tampered thus creating security hole.

What are benefits and limitations of using Cookies?

Following are benefits of using cookies for state management :

No server resources are required as they are stored in client.

They are light weight and simple to use

Following are limitation of using cookies :

Most browsers place a 4096-byte limit on the size of a cookie, although support for
8192-byte cookies is becoming more common in the new browser and client-device versions
available today.

Some users disable their browser or client devices ability to receive cookies, thereby
limiting the use of cookies.

Cookies can be tampered and thus creating a security hole.

Cookies can expire thus leading to inconsistency.

Below is sample code of implementing cookies

Request.Cookies.Add(New HttpCookie(name, user1))

What is Query String and What are benefits and limitations of using Query Strings?

A query string is information sent to the server appended to the end of a page URL.
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No server resources are required. The query string containing in the HTTP requests for
a specific URL.

All browsers support query strings.

Following are limitations of query string : Query string data is directly visible to user thus leading to security problems. Most browsers and client devices impose a 255-character limit on URL length.
Below is a sample Login query string passed in URL http://www.querystring.com/
login.asp?login=testing. This query string data can then be requested later by using
Request.QueryString(login).

What is Absolute and Sliding expiration?

Absolute Expiration allows you to specify the duration of the cache, starting from the time
the cache is activated. The following example shows that the cache has a cache dependency
specified, as well as an expiration time of one minute.
Cache.Insert("announcement", announcement, depends, _
DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(1), Nothing)
Sliding Expiration specifies that the cache will expire if a request is not made within a
specified duration. Sliding expiration policy is useful whenever you have a large number of
items that need to be cached, because this policy enables you to keep only the most
frequently accessed items in memory. For example, the following code specifies that the
cache will have a sliding duration of one minute. If a request is made 59 seconds after the
cache is accessed, the validity of the cache would be reset to another minute:
Cache.Insert("announcement", announcement, depends, _
DateTime.MaxValue, _
TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1))

What is cross page posting?

Note :- This is a new feature in ASP.NET 2.0

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By default, button controls in ASP.NET pages post back to the same page that contains
the button, where you can write an event handler for the post. In most cases this is the
desired behavior, but occasionaly you will also want to be able to post to another page in
your application. The Server.Transfer method can be used to move between pages,
however the URL doesn't change. Instead, the cross page posting feature in ASP.NET 2.0
allows you to fire a normal post back to a different page in the application. In the target
page, you can then access the values of server controls in the source page that initiated
the post back.
To use cross page posting, you can set the PostBackUrl property of a Button, LinkButton
or ImageButton control, which specifies the target page. In the target page, you can then
access the PreviousPage property to retrieve values from the source page. By default, the
PreviousPage property is of type Page, so you must access controls using the FindControl
method. You can also enable strongly-typed access to the source page by setting the
@PreviousPageType directive in the target page to the virtual path or Type name of the
source page.
Here is a step-by-step guide for implementing the cross-page post back using controls
that implement the IButtonControl interface.
Create a Web Form and insert a Button control on it using the VS .NET designer.
Set the button's PostBackUrl property to the Web Form you want to post back. For
instance in this case it is "nextpage.aspx"
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server"
PostBackUrl="~/nextpage.aspx" Text="Post to nextpage" />
When the PostBackUrl property of the IButtonControl is set, the ASP.NET framework
binds the corresponding HTML element to new JavaScript function named
WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions. The corresponding HTML rendered by the
ASP.NET 2.0 will look like this:
<input type="submit" name="Button1" value="Post to Page 2"
onclick="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new
WebForm_PostBackOptions("Button1", ",false,"Page2.aspx", false, false))"
id="Button1" />

How do we access viewstate value of this page in the next page ?

View state is page specific; it contains information about controls embedded on the
particular page. ASP.NET 2.0 resolves this by embedding a hidden input field name,
__POSTBACK . This field is embedded only when there is an IButtonControl on the
page and its PostBackUrl property is set to a non-null value. This field contains the view

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state information of the poster page. To access the view state of the poster page, you can
use the new PreviousPage property of the page:
Page poster = this.PreviousPage;
Then you can find any control from the previous page and read its state:
Label posterLabel = poster.findControl("myLabel");
String lbl = posterLabel.Text;
This cross-page post back feature also solves the problem of posting a Form to multiple
pages, because each control, in theory, can point to different post back URL.

Can we post and access view state in another application?

You can post back to any page and pages in another application, too. But if you are
posting pages to another application, the PreviousPage property will return null. This is a
significant restriction, as it means that if you want to use the view state, you are confined,
for example, to posting to pages in the same virtual directory. Even so, this is a highly
acceptable addition to the functionality of ASP.NET.

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