How to Use Sessions in complex programming in ASp.net

[dilipv]

hi there,

i am creating a job site.i need to make my site realiable. can anyone help me to suggest how to use session in asp.net.

Any reply is most appreciated.

Thank you
Jitesh

[bashandy]

How Sessions Are Implemented

Since the HTTP protocol used by web browsers to request files from web servers is stateless, ASP.NET needs to determine which requests were from the same user. The primary mechanism utilizes a non-persistent cookie that is issued by the web server that contains a session id value. The id provided by this cookie is the key used to index into the session infrastructure to access the user's specific data. The session framework is implemented by the HTTP module System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule, which executes before the .aspx page events. The module uses the EnableSessionState attribute from the @Page directive to determine if it must retrieve the user’s session information (and whether it needs to write out changes when the request is complete). If the EnableSessionState attribute is true (which it is by default), the module retrieves all of the user’s session information and sets the Session property of the Page class to an instance of the HttpSessionState class. This article focuses on the cookie mechanism, although a cookie-less method of sessions is implemented in ASP.NET (the session id is embedded in the URL string). The Session information can be stored in-process (default, stores in web server memory), with a state service, or a SQL Server database. This article will focus on the in-process storage, but the technique applies to all three locations.