Hi Guys,

how do you create a session for a person that has logged in into your website??

Thanks

Adz - Portsmouth Massive

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Adz - Learning The J2EE Ways.

You actually don't need to create a session for a user. ASP.Net creates the session when the first request is received from the client. So the session is already there and ready for you to use. All you need to do is add things to it.

To save a value in the session collection you can do this:

Session.Item("mySessionValueKey") = myValue

One important thing to know about using the session object in ASP.Net is that you have to check to see that an item exists before you try to access it. For example, let's say you need to keep track of a userID. Wherever you need to get it from the session, you need to check for it's existence.

If Not Session.Item("userID") Is Nothing
    'Do something with it here
End If

Also, keep in mind that when you request something from the session collection, it is returned as an object so you will have to convert it to the right data type. For example, if we wanted to get our userID which is an integer, we'd do this:

userID = CType(Session.Item("userID"), Integer)

Peter
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Thanks for your help

Adz - Portsmouth Massive

Hi, I'm new to ASP.net and I wanted to use the Session object and I wanted to save a class with one property in it.
Could you please tell me the difference between :
Session.Add("FileObj"), FileObj) AND
Session("FileObj") = FileObj

Thanks
Ayat

There is little difference between these two methods of adding items to the Session collection except perhaps that the actual "Add" method may return an error or throw an exception if you try to add a item with a key that already exists in the collection.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.