Help with Sessions

[din112]

Hi,

I have used sessions in PHP and found them pretty straightforward.

I have been trying to use sessions in ASP.net but I am finding it very tricky!

Can someone please tell me how to simply pass a variable from one page to another?

I am using :

Page 1

Dim testtxt As String

testtxt = "hello"

Session("MySession") = testtxt

Page 2

Dim Testses As String

Testses = Session("MySession")

Response.Write(Testses)

This does not seem to work. Can someone please point out my mistake?
Should I be messing around with the global.asax or web.config files? I don’t want to really; as I just want stand alone pages and not applications.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Din

[dhtmlgod]

You have to make sure the ASP.NET pages are in an IIS Virtual Directory, in order to use the session, you really need to run the ASP.NET site as an application, thats the way its been designed.

[din112]

Hi,

It is in an IIS Virtual Directory and it is set to run as an application. It still does not run!

Help!

Din

[dhtmlgod]

Does it throw an error?

[din112]

No error, It just does not pass the variable across.(I think)

The session variable seems to work fine on the same page:

Page 1

Dim testtxt As String

testtxt = "hello"

Session("MySession") = testtxt

label1.text = Session("MySession")

label1 shows the variable fine.

If i try and display the session variable on page 2 it results in a blank.

Could it be the way i am going to page 2?

Response.Redirect("page 2.aspx")

Does the way you go to another page make a difference?

Thanks for you help,

Din

[din112]

Solved,

My coding error!!!

I put the page 2 session in the page_load sub!!


Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

Label1.text = Session("MySession")

End Sub

I put it into:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

Label1.text = Session("MySession")

End Sub


now it works fine.

Thanks

Din