Why would ASP.NET MVC use session state?

Question

Recommended by the ASP.NET team to use cache instead of session, we stopped using session from working with the WebForm model the last few years. So we normally have the se

Answer 1

Recommended by the ASP.NET team to use cache instead of session

@ray247, could you provide a reference for this? Session and Cache are different by nature and should be used depending on application requirements. For example storing user specific data into the cache could lead to undesired behavior. Of course if you really want to avoid using session you could provide your own implementation of the ITempDataProvider interface.