ASP.NET State Management

Every time when the web page is posted back to server a new instance of that web page is created. To persist data between different post back events asp.net provides state management.

You can use following features for data persistency.

View state
Control state
Hidden fields
Cookies
Query strings
Application state
Session state
Profile Properties

Where View state, control state, hidden fields, cookies, and query strings stores data at the client side in various formats.While application state, session state, and profile properties store data at the client side.

Please visit http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive207.html for more information and example of state management.