Pros and Cons of Session state and View state in SharePoint webpart

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27 Sep 2012CPOL

I use ViewState all the time.And it works good, PROVIDED that the SIZE of the data is "reasonably bounded" for the given network-access scenarios.So the question is, "HOW BIG?" is the data when PERSISTED to the ViewState hidden field? If this is "too big" or not depends primarly upon...

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1. Pros and Cons of Session state and View state in SharePoint webpart

16 May 2012Athar Raza Faridi

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Is there any specific harm or drawback if we use Session state in SharePoint 2010 ? Actually we have a scenario in which we have to perceive the 100 rows (with seven column in each row) in a DataTable and perceive its values during the page refresh call that is being made on close of the...

2. Pros and Cons of Session state and View state in SharePoint webpart

17 May 2012Not Active

Session is disabled by default in SharePoint. One reason is the memory usage may be invoked by thousands of users accessing the system. Although it can be enabled and set to use SQL Server, it isn't a recommended or common practice with SharePoint.If the goal is to persist the data so it is...