- Basic Concepts
- Application State Data
- Session State Data
- Session Tracking
- State Management Examples
Session State Data
Session state data may be added to the session collection, just as it may be added to the application collection. With the advent of the .NET Framework, a separate process now manages session data. This allows session data to remain intact if IIS shuts down or if the application is hosted on a Web farm or bank of IIS servers.
By default, the session data is managed by a Windows service processalthough it may also be stored in a SQL Server database, in which case a connection string is needed to connect to the appropriate database resource.