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Figure 2 Session Attributes

Attribute
 Description
mode
 Specifies where to store the session state
Inproc
 Stored locally in memory. This is the default
StateServer
 Stored in the memory of a remote server
SqlServer
 Stored on a SQL Server database
Off
 Session state is disabled
cookieless
 Specifies whether client sessions should be identified without using cookies. Can be true or false. The default is false
timeout
 Specifies the number of minutes a session can be idle before it is abandoned. The default is 20
connectionstring
 Specifies the server name and port where session state is stored remotely. Takes the form "server:port". The attribute is required when mode is set to "StateServer"
sqlconnectionstring
 Specifies the connection string for a SQL Server database. The attribute is required when mode is set to "SqlServer"

Figure 4 Techniques for Managing State

Technique
 Recommended with
 Not Recommended with
Persisting to the Session object
 Web farm
 Single server, large data sets
Persisting to the Application or the Cache object
 Relatively constant data, single server
 Web farm
Persisting to local files
 Single server, large data sets to retrieve on demand
 Web farm
No cache on the Web server
 Acceptable speed in relation to the data set size
 Large data sets to process all at once