What namespaces are imported by default in ASPX files

The following namespaces are imported by default. Other namespaces must be imported manually using @ Import directives.
· System
· System.Collections
· System.Collections.Specialized
· System.Configuration
· System.Text
· System.Text.RegularExpressions
· System.Web
· System.Web.Caching
· System.Web.Security
· System.Web.SessionState
· System.Web.UI
· System.Web.UI.HtmlControls System.Web.UI.WebControls

ViewState

Each control on a Web Forms page, including the page itself, has a ViewState property that it inherits from the base Control class. View state is used by the ASP.NET page framework to automatically save the values of the page and of each control just prior to rendering to the page. When the page is posted, one of the first tasks performed by page processing is to restore view state.
You can use the ViewState property to save your values independent of control state between round trips to the server. The ViewState property is stored in the page in a hidden form field

Difference Between ViewState and SessionState

ViewState persist the values of controls of particular page in the client (browser) when post back operation done. When user requests another page previous page data no longer available.

SessionState persist the data of particular user in the server. This data available till user close the browser or session time completes.

Metadata and Manifest

Manifest describes the assembly itself. Assembly name, version, culture, strong name, list of files, type reference and reference assembly. While Metadata describes contents within the assembly like classes, namespaces, interfaces, scope, properties, methods and their parameters etc.

Garbage Collection

It is Automatic Memory Manager for .Net Framework. It manages the memory allocated to .Net Framework.
When a variable is defined it gets a space in memory (stack) and when an object is created memory for the object is allocated in heap. When an object is assigned to a variable it increments the reference counts for the object and when program control comes out of the function the scope of variable gets ended Or NULL is assigned to variable it decrements the reference count of object by 1. When reference count of one object becomes zero GC acts call destructor of object and then releases the memory acquired by the object.

Boxing and Un-Boxing:

Implicit(automatic) conversion of value type to reference type is known as Boxing And Explicit (manual) conversion of Reference type to value type is said to be Un-boxing. (conversion of Integer variable to object type)

Class

Class is concrete representation of an entity. It represents a group of objects, which posses similar attributes and behavior.
Provides Abstraction and Encapsulations. A category name that can be given to group of objects of similar kind.