What is the state management in asp net?

Since HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) is a stateless protocol, when the client (client requests any page after getting response) disconnects from the server, the ASP.NET discards the page objects. So to maintain state between multiple page request ASP.NET uses different mechanism known as State Management.

We can use Client side as well as Server side state management techniques:

Client side:

1. Hidden Field
2. View State
3. Cookies
4. Control State
5. Query Strings

Server side:

1. Session
2. Application