Understanding State Management
As you read at the beginning of this chapter, ASP.NET applications have to manage their states in a different way than client applications. State is managed via some special objects: Application, Cache, Context, Session, and ViewState. All of them work with the Object type, and you use them like dictionaries because they accept key/value pairs. The next subsections explain this and provide examples.
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