hi guys,
i'm building a web site where i have a lot of pages, in the default page i'm having a menu in this menu i have a callendar a drop down list, in the callendar i need to remember the date selected by the user and for the drop down list i have to remember the value selected by the user, these values i need them to query the database.the first time it works great the selected item in the drop down list can be read by any other page(in different pages i'm taking these values and displaying different graphs and table) but when i change the selected value in the drop down list in the default page, it does not change for the other web pages. i was thinking of storing the whole page in a session, but i do not know how to implement this. or may be you have some other suggestions so when i change the value in the default page it will also passed to the any other page i need and then the change the values for these pages.

any help will be very appreciated.
it is realy starting to annoying me ;(

thanks

...Why would you want to store an entire PAGE in session? >< That will crush your server preformance and really isn't practicle.

Only store the value you need in session so, for example, the value from your dropdown might look like this:

Session.Add("dropDown",Convert.ToString(dropdown.S electedItem.Value));

Then to read that value on another page you might do:

int iValue = Convert.ToInt32(Session["dropDown"]);

hth.


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thanks for your quick reply,
i already tried this, the first time the page loaded the other pages can read the value of the drop down list, but when i changed the vakus of the drop down list it does not changed for the other pages, i'm puting a text label also in the master page so whenever i changed the value of the drop down list it will be showing in the top of the page and it is working but for the other pages inside the contentholder the value does not change it stays the same.
also i have a feature that disable the date better that date.now, so when i run the default or the master page the date is disabled but when i click in another page the date are anabled again, that is why i tought may be holding the information of the whole page will solve that problem, may be you have another suggestion. i'm also a newbies in asp.net, this is my first project.

thanks for helping