Session Concepts

Exploring Session in ASP.NET Table of Contents Introduction What is Session? Advantages and disadvantages of Session Storing and retrieving values from Session Session ID Session Mode and State Provider Session State Session Event Session Mode InProc Session Mode Overview of InProc session mode When should we use InProc session mode? Advantages and disadvantages StateServer Session Mode Overview of StateServer session mode Configuration for StateServer session mode How StateServer session mode works Example of StateServer session mode Advantages and Disadvantages SQL Server Session Mode How SQLServer session mode works When should we use SQL Server session mode? Configuration for SQL Server session mode Advantages and disadvantages Custom Session Mode How Custom session mode works? When should we use Custom session mode? Configuration for Custom session mode Advantages and disadvantages Overview of production deployment Application Pool Identity of Application Pool Creating and assigning Application Pool Web Garden How to create a web garden How Session depends on a web garden Web Farm and Load Balancer Handling Session in web farm and load balancer scenarios Session and Cookies What is Cookie-Munging? How Cookie-Munging works in ASP.NET Removing Session Enabling and disabling Session Summary Introduction First of all, I would like to thank all the readers who have read and voted for my articles. In the Beginner's Guide series, I have written some articles on state management. Probably this is my last article on state management. This article will give you a very good understanding of session. In this article, I have covered the basics of session, different ways of storing session objects, session behavior in web farm scenarios, session on Load Balancer, etc. I have also explained details of session behavior in a live production environment. Hope you will enjoy this article and provide your valuable suggestions and feedback.