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Asked: 2026-06-13T18:57:29+00:00

I’m having hard time understanding the stateless issue with mvc. Let’s say i have

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I’m having hard time understanding the stateless issue with mvc.
Let’s say i have a screen with a list of people. i want to choose one of them, and once i selected this person i want to keep his ID, and from my left menu i want to open a screen with his orders, a screen with his account details….
In ASPX i would just keep his PersonID in the session, and use it all over the website.
How can i do the same in mvc? what if i keep his id in a public variable in a public static class? will it work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use a session, just as in ASPX.

    With a static class with a static PersonID property, it will be shared by all users…
    Meaning every time you set the value, all users will get the same value : not exactly what you want, do you ?

    So the Web Forms model essentially abstracted a number of features to
    provide a simulated stateful model for Web developers. As a result,
    you didn’t have to be a Web expert with a lot of HTML and JavaScript
    knowledgeto write effective Web applications.

    To simulate stateful programming over the Web, ASP.NET Web Forms
    introduced features such as viewstate, postbacks, and an overall
    event-driven paradigm.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942833.aspx

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