One important difference is, that items in the cache can expire (will be removed from cache) after a specified amount of time. Items put into a session will stay there, until the session ends. ASP.NET can also remove items from cache when the amount of available memory gets small. Another difference: the session state can … Read more
After urlDecode processes the text, it replaces all ‘+’ chars with ‘ ‘ … thus the error. You should simply call this statement to make it base 64 compatible again: sEncryptedString = sEncryptedString.Replace(‘ ‘, ‘+’);
The length of a base64 encoded string is always a multiple of 4. If it is not a multiple of 4, then = characters are appended until it is. A query string of the form ?name=value has problems when the value contains = charaters (some of them will be dropped, I don’t recall the exact … Read more
Session State contains information that is pertaining to a specific session (by a particular client/browser/machine) with the server. It’s a way to track what the user is doing on the site.. across multiple pages…amid the statelessness of the Web. e.g. the contents of a particular user’s shopping cart is session data. Cookies can be used … Read more
This solution will give you programmatic access to the controls in their entirety including all attributes on the controls. Also, only the text box values will appear in the URL upon submission so your GET request URL will be more “meaningful” <%@ Page Language=”C#” AutoEventWireup=”true” CodeBehind=”JonSkeetForm.aspx.cs” Inherits=”JonSkeetForm” %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” … Read more