jayareddy12

 Profile Answers by jayareddy12 

• Sep 26th, 2007

 

Hidden Files contain information that is not visible on the page but is posted to the server along with a page post back While View State is the mechanism that asp.net uses to maintain the state of controls across page post backs.

HiddenFiles are used for pages that post to themselves or to other pages while View State works only when a page posts back to itself.

Hidden Files does not support for storing structured values while View State support for structured values.
Whereas Session values are available only for the duration of current browser Session only.

subhankarbiet

 Profile Answers by subhankarbiet 

• Dec 9th, 2008

 

View state variables stores the value for a single page, it a client side browser, session is a server side variables. It stores the value for the full project.

sharath R chandra

 Profile Answers by sharath R chandra 

• Apr 13th, 2009

 

View state is stored on page(base 64 encoded). In addition a hash is created using MAC key which is added to view state data and resulting string is stored on page.

Hidden variables doesn't render visibly in browser but its properties can be set. When page is submitted to server, contents of hidden field is sent in http form

Session state is a server based state management. It can be accessible from all pages in web application. It is scoped to current browser session only. It's structured as a key/value dictionary for storing session specific info that needs to be maintained between server round trips.