State Management and Page Navigation

Summary

This Drill demonstrates how to perform state management and page navigation in ASP.NET 2.0. You will complete challenges in using HttpCookies and Request, performing state management with ViewState, implementing cross-page posting, managing session state, and using the data cache with SQL cache invalidation.

Audience

This Drill is for developers who want to be able to understand and work comfortably with state management techniques in ASP.NET 2.0.

What you'll learn

You will be able to implement various state management techniques in applications using HttpCookies, ViewState, and session state. You will have gained the ability to maintain page state after cross-page posting to another page has occurred. In addition, you will be able to implement the caching feature in an ASP.NET application and use it in association with SQL cache dependency.

What you need to know

We assume that you’re already familiar with the concepts of programming and you’ve some experience with Visual Studio 2005. For this particular Drill, you’ll also need to be comfortable with Visual C# or Visual Basic syntax and HTML. Although not essential, experience in object-oriented development, server page technology and basic knowledge of SQL Server would also be useful.