To maintain data that you had used in previous pages, we use State Management Techniques. Nowadays, all web application demand high level state management. In this article, we will discuss about state management technique and their types in ASP.net. Web pages are based on stateless HTTP protocol, which does not retain data while transferring control from one page to another. This means all information associated with the page or control to another page would be lost. There are many techniques we can use to maintain data. There are two types of state management Client side and server side state management. Client Side In client side state management, it stores information in either in client computer or web page. No information will be stored in server side in a round trip. Round Trips means specific information is sent to server and server will respond back to the client machine. Technique used to store information in client sides are View state, Hidden Field, Cookies, Query String Server Side Working on the client side and server side are same, but in server side all information is stored in user memory. For storing web page information in more secure place than server side state management is more secure the client side state management. Technique used to store information in server sides are Session state, Application State. Session State provides a strong technique to maintain state. It is used to store user information or unique id of user by using session and Application State is global storage mechanism that is accessible from all pages of web application
