Saving the selected AJAX tab for reuse on another page

[jonefer]

It's simple enough to set the active tab on a postback (full load)

For example, if I wanted to be on the 3rd tab when the page loads I could put
Tabs.ActiveTabIndex = 2 in the load event

However, If I now select the first Tab (Tabs.ActiveTabIndex = 0)
and want to save that for the desired selected tab on another page
it seems extremely intense. There are a lot of posts.

For example:
One post
(http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/maintaining-active-tab.aspx)involves a
webservice and an entire article
Just to get to something like this:

Public Sub SaveTabIndex(ByVal UniqueTabID As String, ByVal Index As Integer)
' Simply save to the session
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session(UniqueTabID) = Index
End Sub

It couldn't be that difficult to just save the active tab when the user
selects it - for use on another page?