Restoring state to a web page accessed previously

[McGeeky]

I am implementing a series of sequential web pages, a wizard, whereby the
user can step back to a previous page. I want to restore the state of those
pages if the user navigates back to them. Only being new to ASP.Net, I am
not sure if it provides facilities to manage this scenario. Any info would
be appreciated, thanks.

 

[Guest]

Try to use the session or applciation state object
Or even cookies

 

[Guest]

While the use of cookies is a nice option, but one caveat with cookies is
that it can be tampered with or deleted by the user. Another thing to
remember is that it has a storage limitation of 4KB only. If you are not
concerned with any of the above, you could also save cookies in memory by
setting cookieless= true in the session state settings in your web.config
file.

But as always you can never go wrong with Cache, Session state management as
Serge suggested.

Cheers,

Obi Oberoi

 

[McGeeky]

Thanks Serge.

By using the session state, does that mean I need to put all of the state in
to the session manually?

Is there no way to reuse the viewstate mechanism that ASP.Net uses when you
operate on a single page, but somehow preserve across pages?

 

[Guest]

Yes, with session you have to handle them manually. In a sesion state you can
event store a complete object lke :

Session("USerInfo") =MyUserInfoOBject

Remeber that session stand for single user, otherwise use application state

ViewState can be use to retrive Readonly controls properties