We're creating a new consumer/public-facing ASP.Net web app. There are two concerns:
--Use cookie or cookieless forms authentication?
--If we decide not to use cookies at all, how would you store the data that would otherwise be stored in the cookie (Customer ID, AffiliateID, etc.). Does the ASP.Net authentication framework track something like CustomerID?
I am developing a intranet site and want to track the users, I am using session for this purpose, I am using windows authentication mode so there is no login form here. When a user clicks the url for the first time a new session is created and at that time I am adding a entry in a table(say :Users) with username and logintime and sessionid etc. Below is the logic Iam using in form_load event of Default.aspx
If session("user") is nothing then
---create new session (at this point I am adding a entry in table(users))
Else --- use the same session and continue the work.
End if
When I check the users info in the table some entries are created with same userid and same sessionids with different login time, how this is possible. I just want to know who is logged in and what time.
It's not explicitly written somewhere but I felt so after reading few blogs on ASP.NET MVC. Just got curious and thought of asking it here.
UPDATE: I'm not asking about memory/storage/RAM concerns on server. For them, there is a solution to store session out of process. I know that. I'm curious that, are there any scenarios where we had to use Session in WebForms but we can avoid it now in MVC taking benefit of the nice structured way offered by MVC?
i have deployed my website on a particular server. i have some limitations in using viewstate and session variables.
those pages in which i have used ViewState variables (for storing some information), i user accesses that page and does not do any activity for 5 minutes and if after 5 minutes he does any kind of activity (click on Link or button etc) then he receives following error:
"Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster."
another problem is with session. My session expires just after 2-3 minutes. What should i do for maintaining session for long time? i can not use cookies, as if user has disabled the cookies then my website will not work...
I use some session variables to get the job done(shopping cart, etc) but it is not stable..manytimes I get no items in session object and other times(refreshing the page) I get missing data...I downloaded the entire site code to my local pc and debugged it and run it succesfully without any session data missing...When I run it in the server, I get bad session again: no products in shopping cart or products with missing quantities...
The same website runs smoothly in our production server too....The problem is with our development server...
I have some code in my page load event where I just want to fire once when the user opens the Browser. The only issue is if you open a new tab with the same website the session variable does not reset. Is there a way to reset the session variable when you open a new tab or do you have to take the whole web browser down for it to clear the session variable.
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I am working on an asp.net website using C#. The site deals with orders and therefore order lines. I would like to store the order in memory whilst it is being populated (with order lines) and once it gets submitted write it to a database.
The above logic has been implemented, but sometimes when accessing session state or storing a variable in it information gets lost. Take note that the web server is running a dual-core processor. I am also using the in proc session state server.
I tried changing over to using the out proc session state server (asp.net state service), but it requires serialization. Since the order and orderlines are actually linq to sql classes, the entitysets and entityref's fail to serialize.
Does anyone know the reason why session state loses information occasionally and possibly how to eliminate the problem?
I'm trying to pass some variables from one page to another via the session state and then post those variables to labels on page 2. When I try to write the code for my labels on page2, I get an error of "Declaration expected"Here is my code from that page:
Partial Class Default2
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Dim firstname As String = CType(Session.Item("FirstName"), String)
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Am I missing a page_load event handler or what am I missing?
I've been building ASP.Net applications for a few years now but most of my work is focused on business apps that'll be used by less than 50 people, running on an Intranet.
Today I had a conversation with a colleague who is thinking of using ASP.Net to build a commercial application that could potentially be used by 1 Million users. He wanted to know about the scalability of ASP.Net apps and how much (or how little) of stateful objects likes Session variables he could use and still keep his app scalable. To this I did not have an answer, which is why I'm turning to the community.
Striving to keep your bias to a minimum, if you were going to build an ASP.Net application for 1 Million users that provided a rich UI experience, what parts of Microsoft's technologies to keep track of state would you avoid or keep to a minimum?
We are working in a web application using Session variables to store the clients ID to operate with them in all app (making orders, reports, etc....) but randomly users get the client ID of another user in any moment using the application.
I have tried to solve it in a first step adding to system.web section in the web.config file this:
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ASP.NET State Service is running in server normally, It began run just before this last change, but we have not solved the problem either with this solution.
The server is Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2 32bits running IIS 6.0, and the application is made with Framework 2.0
There are a couple of user's experiences session variable loss after they've clicked a confirm button and their information is email via a relay hosting server. Below, I commented exactly where the session variables get lost.
What could be causing the session variable loss? So far, this only happens to a few users.
Part of the email that gets sent out:
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Web config file:
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How to keep the session variables even after closing the browser?
Everytime I close the browser, I lose all the session variables.
Is there any way to keep them?
How can I retain the value of variables that I fill from CodeBehind throughout the session? (C#). For example, I do a LINQ query from the log in "on-Click" button event. The query produces a bunch of data about the user that I want to access throughout the session on additional ASP pages. I know that I can pass a large query string but I suspect that there is a better way. Here's a specific...
from the db function I product: COS=2 (class of service). Throughout the session, I test for COS and display appropriate pages. Assume that the LINQ query is accomplished in the CodeBehind attached to the "loginButton" within the "login.aspx" page.
I am using Session ID Manager in all the pages of the website, but I am losing session variables in between the pages. what should I do to save the values of session variables.
Anoop
We are in the process of refactoring from cf to .net, so, I am working on the Login page and converting it from cf to .net. So, when I am autheticated and enter into our website, I need to redirect it to a cfm page (just temporary, since we will be refactoring that also eventually).
So, I am autheticated (using CustomMembership Provider model for sql server) and then when I redirect to the cfm, the app.cfm should validate the .net session variables. Here is where i am stuck:
I have the .net session variables in the aspx side:something like Session["UserId"].ToString() = Value from a login txt box (also authenticated against data in the database)
Session["UserName"].ToString() = Value from the db corresponding to the User Name entered in the text box.
So, now I have all the session variables in the .net side. Now, how do I retreive these .net session in the cf side? Any small peice of code to retrive the asp.net session variable in the application.cfm side would be great.
if using session variables to store and retrieve information is a bad practice? Let me give you some background:
I am developing a site for a friend of mine, and his site is hosted by Go-Daddy. My feeling is that Go-Daddy is not the best place to host a .NET site, but it is what it is.
After the first version of the site was published and people started using it, users immediately started having session time-out problems and null exceptions when referencing session variables. I researched everything I could and tried everything I could think to do, but I just could not correct the issue.
Then, while doing some testing, I discovered that users weren't individually timing-out and losing their session information, but, rather, all users where timing out at exactly the same time, regardless of how long they had been logged in or what they were doing. So, for whatever reason, the server was just dumping all sessions at random intervals.
At this point I needed to move on with the project so I added a number of cookies to replace the session variables, and everything began working properly.
in a hosted environment, should I avoid using session variables? Is it as problamatic as my research and experience would indicate, or is this simply due to the fact that I am working with a poor hosting company in Go-Daddy?
i have 2 different sites under different subdomains.
www.company.com
and e-order.company.com
i want to have SSO so i have tried to make a global cookie.
my question is :does the global cookie keeps the session variables when i am going from one site to another?
if not how can i pass a session variable for ex. session("userName") from one site to the other on redirect?
I have session variable that is created in EditPlaylist.aspx. Edit.aspx is loading EditPlaylist.aspx in an iframe.
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I am using Windows xp/ .net 2.0 / vs 2005 for development environment. My session data (not all session data) are getting lost when I try to navigate between pages through window.open but the same is working perfectly in proc mode but in state server / sql server mode I am facing the problem.
View 9 Replies1) As per my understanding, Session variables like HashTable and another variable in Session must be initialized. The best place as per my knowledge is Sesson_Start Event. But at some post its written that we must do that in Application_Start. I think it is not true, as that could lead to problems with different user sessions. Reference is this [URL] Let me know about the concept.
2) Storing variables like string, boolean and etc in Session is slower than storing objects in Session like HashTable, Arrays etc.. becuase they dont require boxing and unboxing. Is that true? Reference. [URL]
I created a virtual directory for new .ASPX pages added to existing ASP website. I found that the new .ASPX pages are not able to access the session variables created by the existing .ASP pages (outside the virtual directory).
View 3 RepliesI have a web application running on IIS 7 on a Windows 7 machine. The app pool is configured for .Net 4, 32 bit enabled, Integrated Pipeline.
Everything seems to be fine with the app until I first create a session variable in one of my asmx pages.
Once I've created the session variable the handling of subsequent http requests sometimes takes upwards of 30 after the browser has posted to my asmx page before the function is actually invoked. I've been looking all over my configuration settings and searching the web and still have no idea what could be going wrong here.
The method that sets the session variable looks something like this:
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I have 4 webpages. In those pages, i am using session variables,viewstates,cookies. I am passing session variables,viewstates to different pages. Now the problem is sometimes i am getting the old cookie values or session values. I want to clear all these things when i close the browser or if i open a new tab of browser.
View 10 RepliesSince I changed from statemode"inproc" to stateserver I canīt se changes done to de session vaiable in a thread. I can only see the first value set to the session variable!
View 6 RepliesI'm using the beta version of Visual Studio 2010. I'm running my ASP.NET 4.0 website through the debugger. Whenever there is a page load (e.g. clicking on a link, a postback) the session is ended and a new session is created. This wipes out all the session variables and makes debugging impossible. How to get session variables to persist across page loads?
Is this problem unique to running ASP.NET in a test environment or unique to the beta 2 version of VS 2010?