ASP.NET and objects

Question

Hi,

Let's say I have a class Person, with a string[] nickNames, where Person can have 0 or more nicknames stored. I want to create an asp.net page where a user can go and add/edit/delete nicknames.
Question is- how to i persist the Person object between postbacks? I query the DB and create the object then display it on a form, but then the user has the option to edit/delete fields of that object.. once the page is displayed with the fields of Person, how do I update that object with the changes the user made, to store to db?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Query the object it again (you could store it in a session variable but that doesn't scale), gather and apply changes from user upon postback.

Answer 2

Well if your Person Object is serializable you could store it in ViewState and if not, you could stick it in Session, but it sounds like you might have a general lack of understanding about Data Persistance in general

Depending on your implementation, and whether you're coding this all by hand or using the built in DataSource/DataAdapter controls, theres a bunch of ways to do it.

You could have a look at some basic ASP.NET/ADO.NET Tutorials to point you in the right direction

http://aspnet101.com/aspnet101/tutorials.aspx?id=17