Re: State Management

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From: Richard (Richard_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:03:03 -0800

John, thank you for this info!

"John M Deal" wrote:

> The only issue to be aware of (in your collection scenario) is
> serialization. If the collection that you put the objects is not
> serializable you'll get an exception if someone decides to activate SQL
> or Out-Of-Process session state as these session storage methods
> serialize the object across process boundaries when storing and
> retrieving the data. Of course this assumes that you use session to
> temporarily store state.
>
> You mentioned other ways of storing the user data each has its own
> issues. You don't want to use the application level storage for
> handling the storage of user specific data as you're giving every user
> potential access to every other user's data, not to mention that the
> data will stick around in memory until the application ends or you take
> pains to shut it down. If you are looking at cookies you'll need to
> make a call on how much data you want to store and transmit across the
> line between the user and the server.
>
> We've found that on the whole using serializable data containers to
> store data in Session seems to be the most flexible and manageable
> solution to temporary storage of state. We usually abstract the calls
> to state storage in a wrapper class so that we can change the storage
> methodology as our needs dictate (i.e. custom storage repository,
> security requirements...).
>
> Have A Better One!
>
> John M Deal, MCP
> Necessity Software
>
> Richard wrote:
> > Can collection classes be used to store session data? In a couple of books on
> > ASP.Net where they discuss state management (to capture a user's input data),
> > they talk about session and application objects, cookies, statebag, etc.
> >
> > But if I have a checkboxlist, can't I just iterate through the selected
> > items and store them in a collection class for use in later pages in the web
> > app? Would there be implications of doing it this way?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Richard
>

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