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I have an entry form. One of the options is saving an incomplete form, that can be loaded at a later date, and submitted. I would rather have the files saved on the client side, so that one client can not open another's file. All help is appreciated.
Well you could take a look at the Response.OutputStream method to return a file & let your users download this.
I recommend you look into a solution whereby you save this onto your server and provide a means of relating a user to a specific saved form (or series of forms) though - maybe via a user login for example.
If you are thinking of letting your users upload the file again at a later date, this would raise more security and validation issues you would need to account for.
If you only want to store the incomplete form data, then you can store it in cookie and retrive it later to populate the form. That would be easy.
Bear in mind that you should allow for the fact that not all browsers are set to allow cookies.
I believe there is a method within ASP.Net which allows you to save session state to a database instead, but again, this will require a server-side solution.
I thought about using a cookie, but what happens when a client deletes their cookies? If it smokes all of the temporary data they've stored, I would have people lined up outside my cubicle with pitch forks, and torches. For now I've got it set up to store the data on the server. I figure one of the key advantages, is our nightly backups will ensure a hardware problem on the client side will not require them to spend hours redoing data entry.