I use custom session state provider (appfabric). I marked my pagecontroller class with [Serializable]. When i redirect a page i get error HttpContext is not marked as serializable. I have a property in pagecontroller class;
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Is this piece of code may be the main reason for serialization error ? I use the it nearly everywhere, so i can not simply detach and test it.
I have a object of Class named "Employee" I need to store the object in the session. what happens if i do not serialize the object and store in the session.
View 7 RepliesI know this question is related to many others, but please bear with me.I am trying an experiment to store all information in database tables instead of the ASP.NET session. In ASP.NET 4 one can create a custom provider for session. So, again should I implement a Custom Session-State Provider or should I just disable session (in Web.config)?From the comments my question can be misunderstood. Hopefully this tidbit will help clarify:don't want to store the session in the database. I want to store information in the database that you would typically store in the session. One reason why: I don't want to carry around a session on every page, especially if thapage doesn't care about 90 percent of the information in the session
View 1 RepliesI've created a whole bunch of rather complex classes and now i'm starting to work on the ASP.net user interface. Basically the user will open 1 page which will be used to load, edit, save an object. The object has many fields and they are often other classes i've created. To create a nice interface i've used popups and used AJAX to reload parts of the page to avoid reloading the whole thing.
My plan was to create the object and save it to the session. Then each time the page is loaded copy the object values to the asp fields and do the reverse when the page has been submitted copying the asp values to the object field then updating the session object.
So the code will go something like:
onload:
if session is not null load from session otherwise create new
this.txtID.text = object.id
this.txtName.text = object.name
etc etc
on submit:
object.id = this.txtID.text
object.name = this.txtName.text
etc etc
update session.
Is this what you guys would do? or am i over thinking this, seems like a lot of code to load all the object fields each time the page is opened and submitted etc.
Just looking to bounce ideas of off other developers :D
I read the solutioin for this error, at the following link :http://forums.asp.net/p/1046935/1576341.aspxbut I am still not clear what exactly causes the error. I have two doubts :1. Can anyone please elaborate a bit on this issue, with any example ????2. Is there any drawback of this approach ?
View 4 RepliesI want to know how can I write custom session management mechanism in ASP.NET. I do not want to use cookies or URL to have my session ID thus I think I can not use SessionIDManager. I will like to save the sessionID in a post variable and at server I will like to extract this ID to map with session.
View 3 RepliesI have code :
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Is it right?
I'm trying to save a custom class in a session, but it just never gets saved, along with other sessions. Note that my SessionMode = STATESERVER, and i cannot change it to INPROC as per our business requirement. This is my class
/*******START*******/
[Serializable]
public class User : ISerializable
{
private int _userId;
public int UserId
{
get { return _userId; }
set { _userId = value; }
}
//custom class
private TDB.tdbUser _tdbUserDetails;
public TDB.tdbUser tdbUserDetails
{
get { return _tdbUserDetails; }
set { _tdbUserDetails = value; }
}
//collection of custom class Sites
private List<Sites> _assignedSites;
public List<Sites> AssignedSites
{
get { return _assignedSites; }
set { _assignedSites = value; }
}
public User()
{
//Constructor code
}
/******SERIALIZATION*****/
protected User(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
{
this._userId = (int)info.GetValue("_userId", typeof(int));
this._assignedSites = (List<Sites>)info.GetValue("_assignedSites", typeof(List<Sites>));
this._tdbUserDetails = (TDB.tdbUser)info.GetValue("_tdbUserDetails", typeof(TDB.tdbUser));
}
[SecurityPermission(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, Flags = SecurityPermissionFlag.SerializationFormatter)]
void ISerializable.GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
{
info.AddValue("_userId", this._userId);
info.AddValue("_assignedSites", this._assignedSites);
info.AddValue("_tdbUserDetails", this._tdbUserDetails);
}
}
/*******END*******/
The calling code is just this: (User)HttpContext.Current.Session["TDBUSER"];
I want to put POCO object to Velocity cache. How can I serializable ICollection to Velocity cache, or exclude ICollection from serialization?
I got this exception
Type 'System.Collections.Generic.ICollection`1[Model.Collection]' cannot be serialized. Consider marking it with the DataContractAttribute attribute, and marking all of its members you want serialized with the DataMemberAttribute attribute. If the type is a collection, consider marking it with the CollectionDataContractAttribute. See the Microsoft .NET Framework documentation for other supported types.
Can anyone explain to me why this first example works fine but the second, which would use a little less code and in my mind appears to achieve the same result, yet throws a null ref error?
This works ...
if (Session["sid"] == null || Session["sid"].ToString() == "")
{
// session is NOT valid.
}
else
{
// session is valid.
}
This does not work?
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(Session["sid"].ToString()))
{
// session is NOT valid.
}
else
{
// session is valid.
}
I receive the error message "Error: Your session has expired. Please refresh your browser." When I export a table in ASP to Excel. I know for a fact that the correct data to export exists. Everything works fine except for this error message. I don't see how the session on a browser could run out in a matter of the one second it takes for the Excel file to pop up
View 2 RepliesI have method called BindProductDetails in ProductDetails.cs as follow.
protected void BindProductDetails(int vehicleId)
{
String sLocale=Some.DataProvider.ListData.GetCulture(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["CountryCode"].ToString());
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This method returns culture ="en-US" if CountryCode passed is "US".And GetProductDetails method used in ProductDetails.cs is follow
public static Product GetProductDetails(int productId,string CountryCode,string LanguageCulture)
{
sLocale = Some.DataProvider.ListData.GetCulture(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["CountryCode"].ToString());[code]....
I try to get sLocale variable to "en-US" if Countrycode passed is "US" in session.I get Object reference not set to an instance of an object error near
StringsLocale=Some.DataProvider.ListData.GetCulture(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["CountryCode"].ToString()); in ProductDetails.cs page.This method works fine in all other page,but here it is showing error.If I hard code Session to US then it works fine.I think it is not reading session.
I would like to know if the way i'm dealing with session variables is the right way, and also how to fix this error i'm getting:
FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
i make a web site using frame but session is expire message is
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Description: HTTP 500. Error processing request.
Stack Trace:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad (System.EventArgs e) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessLoad () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessPostData () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.UI.Page.InternalProcessRequest () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest (System.Web.HttpContext context) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 My Web Config file is<configuration> <!-- store the database connection info here --> <appSettings> <add key="sBook_StoreDBConnectionString" value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;User ID=Admin;Data Source=C:Program FilesCodeChargeExamplesBookStoreBookStore_MSAccess.mdb;Persist Security Info=False" /> </appSettings> <system.web> <httpRuntime executionTimeout="1000" maxRequestLength="2000000" /> <!-- DYNAMIC DEBUG COMPILATION Set compilation debug="true" to enable ASPX debugging. Otherwise, setting this value to false will improve runtime performance of this application. Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging symbols (.pdb information) into the compiled page. Because this creates a larger file that executes more slowly, you should set this value to true only when debugging and to false at all other times. For more information, refer to the documentation about debugging ASP.NET files. --> <compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true" /> <!-- CUSTOM ERROR MESSAGES Set mode="on" or "remoteonly" to enable custom error messages, "off" to disable. Add <error> tags for each of the errors you want to handle. --> <customErrors mode="Off"/> <!--<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="Login.aspx"> <error statusCode="500" redirect="Login.aspx"/> <error statusCode="404" redirect="Login.aspx"/> <error statusCode="403" redirect="Login.aspx"/></customErrors> --> <!-- AUTHENTICATION This section sets the authentication policies of the application. Possible modes are "Windows", "Forms", "Passport" and "None" --> <authentication mode="None" /> <!-- APPLICATION-LEVEL TRACE LOGGING Application-level tracing enables trace log output for every page within an application. Set trace enabled="true" to enable application trace logging. If pageOutput="true", the trace information will be displayed at the bottom of each page. Otherwise, you can view the application trace log by browsing the "trace.axd" page from your web application root. --> <trace enabled="false" requestLimit="10" pageOutput="false" traceMode="SortByTime" localOnly="true" /> <!-- SESSION STATE SETTINGS By default ASP .NET uses cookies to identify which requests belong to a particular session. If cookies are not available, a session can be tracked by adding a session identifier to the URL. To disable cookies, set sessionState cookieless="true". --> <sessionState mode="InProc" stateConnectionString="tcpip=localhost:42424" cookieless="false" timeout="60" /> <!-- GLOBALIZATION This section sets the globalization settings of the application. --> <globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" /> </system.web> <connectionStrings> <add name="mydb" connectionString="Server=localhost;User=SYSDBA;Password=datacenter;Database=/opt/db/erp2.fdb;Min Pool Size=5;Max Pool Size=60;Connect Timeout=30" providerName="FirebirdSql.Web.Providers" /> <add name="mydb2" connectionString="Server=localhost;User=blackberry;Password=acgmkRMS;Database=/opt/db/pwd.fdb;Min Pool Size=5;Max Pool Size=60;Connect Timeout=30" providerName="FirebirdSql.Web.Providers" /> </connectionStrings></configuration>
Have not run the ASP.NET Development Server for a while. Today I copied a production website to my workstation and ran it with VS 2008. The following error message popped up. What is the problem with the ASP.NET development Server on my workstation? The website on the Production server still ran okay.Unable to make the session state request to the session state server. Please ensure that the ASP.NET State service is started and that the client and server ports are the same. If the server is on a remote machine, please ensure that it accepts remote requests by checking the value of KEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesaspnet_stateParametersAllowRemoteConnection.
If the server is on the local machine, and if the before mentioned registry value does not exist or is set to 0, then the state server connection string must use either 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' as the server name.
I am trying to use the Application_Error to redirect the user to a custom error page. I know I could use the web.config to do this, but let's assume for now that this is not a desirable path to take.
Initially, I tried to do a Response.Redirect to perform this, however, there seem to be occasions where the current http context does not define the response object. So, I attempted to perform a check to make sure that the response object is not null prior to attempting the redirection, and if it is not defined, perform a Server.Transfer instead.
What happens is that in most cases, the Redirect causes the browser to some generic "friendlyish" error page rather than the requested error page.
So then I tried using Server.Transfer exclusively, and this worked well for most cases, however, sometimes the transfer didn't seem to take in the browser. Changing it back to a redirect in these cases solved that problem, but reintroduced the issue where the errors previously being captured and transferred now were being redirected.
What I surmised from this is that in certain contexts where the Application_Error method is trapped, it is necessary to use Server.Transfer in redirection, whereas in others, it is necessary to use Response.Redirect. The question then became twofold: (a) When is one necessary and when is the other? and (b) What available information can I poll to tell me when a given condition exists.
After much searching, I cannot find a reasonable answer to this question. So I began to trap errors and examine the HttpContext object for some indicator. One thing that I was looking for is the reason why if even with a defined Response in the current context does a redirect fail. The only thing that stood out is that even though a Response object may exist, the Session data could be absent. I added the case to check whether the Session data was null and perform a Transfer in this case and it
seems to be handling it properly.
I emphasize "seems to be handling it properly" because no documentation I've been able to find confirms either the problem I am having or whether this is an appropriate strategy for solving it.
I guess the question is, am I on the right track here or is the null Session object just a red herring, indicative of nothing relevant. Here's the check I have set up for reference.
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Am looking for a third party tool/provider of session state/caching in an ASP.NET context.
View 2 RepliesI was referred here by MSDN forums hope this is the right place - I have a custom control (:WebControl) that renders web.sitemap in a specific way. While it runs error free and produces the expected result, at Design-Time it complains
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and have tried the SiteMapDataProvider Tag with and without the SiteMapProvider
attribute.Does anybody have (a) any experience with this, or (b) any suggestions as to how to track down the problem?
Customer were getting "View State Validation Error" due to worker process recycling at our production webserver and to fix that i applied machinekey and then move my Session state Mode from In Proc to State Server to retain session data and not kick out the customer to relogin. I had serialization issue with one object which has to be stored in session but when i moved it out of session i could able to resolve the issue.
But doing all these i was partly successfull in keeping the user in their session when Worker Process recycle event occurs.I was able to refresh the page or make a post back by clicking the refresh button and also able to retain the session values. But the Problem occurs when sending asynchronous request to server which we do periodically every 15 minutes from the moment the user logs in.The web page doesnot update data on website when sending asynchronous request.By Debugging I found at this particular code point it fails to make a postback which is required.
<%=GetHintFromServer%> (When there is no Worker Process recycle i t gets replaced by
WebForm_DoCallback('__Page',message,ShowHint,null,null,false) on postback) Everything works fine when there is no Worker Process Recyling but when it happens looks like sending request asynchronously using javascript fails .Remember When I make a post back by manually clicking submit button everything works fine.
SendRequest(Asynchronous)
function SendRequest(msg, isBusy, chartMsg, vesselMsg)
{
try
{
//confirm("msg"+msg+"isBusy"+isBusy+"chartMsg"+chartMsg+"VesselMsg"+vesselMsg);
_busy = isBusy;
if(chartMsg != null)
{
//confirm("chartMsg"+chartMsg);
_element.SetMessage(true, chartMsg);
}
if(vesselMsg != null)
{
confirm("chartMsg"+vesselMsg);
_element.ShowVesselLoading(true, vesselMsg);
}
_stuckWatchdog = setTimeout( "ClearPendingRequest();", 60000);
var message = msg;
var context = '';
<%=GetHintFromServer%>
}
catch(e)
{
alert( "Exception error on SendRequest(): " + e);
}
}
I am new to .net 4.0 and am using EF Model and SessionState Mode=SqlServer and I am getting this error below:
Unable to serialize the session state. In 'StateServer' and 'SQLServer' mode, ASP.NET will serialize the session state objects, and as a result non-serializable objects or MarshalByRef objects are not permitted. The same restriction applies if similar serialization is done by the custom session state store in 'Custom' mode.
I checked the stack trace and its complaining about
[assembly: global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EdmSchemaAttribute()]
[assembly: global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EdmRelationshipAttribute("PoplarGroveModel", "tblMenuRole", "tblMenu", global::System.Data.Metadata.Edm.RelationshipMultiplicity.Many, typeof(PoplarGroveDataModel.Menu), "tblRole",
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I marked it as serializable but then it complains about System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext is not marked as serializable and hence throws the same error.
Our ASP.NET App uses ASP State Session Management and has been rebuilt about 2 years ago [With .NET Framework 2.0]. We are currently in .NET framework 3.5 and have moved to SQL Server 2008 - but continue to use the same ASPState database. The State database has been upgraded to SQL Server 2008. Since then we have are seeing timouts/locks on ASPStateTempSessions table. I am wondering if we have to rebuild this database from scratch with some newer scripts?
View 2 RepliesI'm using the following line of code to display the number of users currently logged on:
lblNoOfUsers.Text = Membership.GetNumberOfUsersOnline().ToString()
I'm still debugging my application so it's on the local server. As I debug and stop then debug again, eventually lblNoOfUsers.text turns to "0" instead of "1", even as I'm navigating my application. It only turns to "1" again if I log out and sign back in. It's almost as though Membership.GetNumberOfUsersOnline my login are referencing two different session states. How is this possible? Does asp.net create a new session state cookie each time I start debugging?
I am trying to set a session variable in the global.asax file and keep running into the problem that the Session is null.
I am running my application in VS2008 and using asp.net 3.51.
Here is my code:
1. In my web.config file I have enabled the session state and added the following line;
<sessionState
cookieless="false"
mode="InProc"
timeout="60"
></sessionState>
2. In the Session_Start procedure in the Global.asax file I set the session variable to a default value.
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My problem seems to be that when the Application_Error procedure is executed the session state is lost.
Does anyone know why the session state isn't available in the Global.asax file.
All we have a global ships position tracking website which runs smoothly until IIS application pool recycles.When there is workerprocess recycling looks like session state expires as a result i loose all session data and when customer clicks refresh button he is redirected to login page.
In web.config Session state mode is set to InProc so i changed it to State Server but to my luck i have MAP object which is not serialiazable which is causing the maps from not appearing on the website.I tried adding serializable attribute to the object class but still not succesfull.Our website is accessed by our customers whose count is more than 1000.
Changing the session state mode from InProc to StateServer can really slow down the response time so
Is it good to go further fix the serailizable issues and move to state server?.
Is there any way I can retain my session data when application pool recyles?..
Stopping Application pool from recycling may not be a good idea considering health factor of web server.
Let me explain, describing the scenario:In a custom server control (in my case, derived from CompositeControl), in the overidden CreateChildControls method I create a complex tree of subcontrols, using information from a db.The db provides both information on which controls I need to create (the user interface's structure) and the data used to fill these controls.Than the user can interact with the control and change the data (that becomes different to what stored on db).
My custom control lives in the same page where there are other controls, obviously.And these controls can cause a postback at any time.What I need is that my custom control keeps the data entered by the user across these postback, without reverting to the original data and loose the user data entry.
Here is the first doubt:
1)I create the subcontrols dinamically in the CreateChildControls at any page refresh (both on first call than on postback).I know that the framework solves the reference between the posted data and the controls I create in the CreateChildControls in order to set properties and raise control events, but can you tell me when and how it actually does this? In which phase of page life cycle? What happens after the CreateChildControls?
A second doubt:2)If the user interface structure must change as a consequence of the data entered, I had to execute CreateChildControls twice (the first time to recreate the original interface to get the events and the second time to create the new interface)
In which phase of page/control lifecycle do I have to make the second call to CreateChildControls? I do it on Prerender now, but is it right or wrong, and why?