State Management
The State or Cache Management is nothing but the way to storing the data in Client-Side and in Server-Side using preity small memory.
There are two major category of the above :
I. Server-Side State Management
Session State:
Its nothing but defined as a period of time shared between the web application and user. Every user has individual session. Items/Objects can be placed into the Session which would only define these object for that user. Session contains key variables which help to identify the related values. This can be thought of as …

Its the path providing facility to provide the virtual content to compiler. For example, a virtual path provider provides a means to supply content from locations other than the file system.
To attain the same following step(s) are required :
1. Create a VirtualPathProvider class, and implement all the required methods to handle files and folder requests.
2. Register the virtual path provider to let the ASP.NET hosting environment know where the content will be served from.
3. Create VirtualFile and VirtualDirectory objects to stream the content.
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Cache:
Its nothing but a thought kind of memory. In respect to asp.net it’s the memory of the machine/server from where the source-code is running. It is the one way which allow to store complex data for reusability.
Now think a criteria where clients access an ASP.NET page, there are basically two ways to provide them with the information they need:

The ASP.NET page can either obtain information from server resources, such as from data that has been persisted to a database, or
The ASP.NET page can obtain information from within the …