Difference between viewbag and viewstate?

Question

Is there a functional difference between ViewState in Webforms and ViewBag in MVC? They seem to be the \"same thing\". And can be used in the same ways. I ask because MVC pr

Answer 1

Viewstate is posted back along with the content of a form to the server and thus values in it are available on post back. A viewbag only holds the values in it until the page is served then the ViewBag is removed from memory. So you can use ViewState to hold state between calls but you can not do the same with a ViewBag.