This article is a part of Form Concepts series of articles.

Performing Context.Transfer to another form is prefered over a Context.Redirect for a few reasons.

• In terms of efficiency, Context.Transfer is significantly more efficient that Context.Redirect. The reason for it is that it processed within the same request context and allthough it is effectively transfering to a new mainform, it does not create a new Context.
  
• Less memory overhead as you use the same context and the server side does not have to create a new one
  
• You preserve all the context variables you have saved
• Target form (being transfered to) does not have to be available as application entry point (MainForm).

Context.Redirect is a complete redirection to another mainform, which requres a new Context to be created, which both takes more time and resources. In addition, Context.Redirect requires that the form redirected to has to be available as application entry point (MainForm).