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

the ViewBag doesn't get sent to the client ( Browser ). Its purely something to use transitioning from the controller to the View ( which is before its sent back to the client).

In MVC, If you get a postback from that page, then you wont recover your "state", like Viewstate does, the only state you have is whatever you send to the browser, and whatever you send back.