How to share asp.net Session into WCF service

Question

Im using asp.net website with WCF service, having wsHttpBinding,Aspnet compatibility enabled, specified as Sessionmode -allowed, service behavior- isinitiated and client session cookie enabled. Its looking like Asp.Net session object and WCF Session( HTTPContext.Current.Session) work independently. How can I share Asp.net Session value to WCF Session and vise versa.

Answer 1

Instead of making your web service dependent on the hosting environment I would suggest you adding the needed parameter to the operation contract so that it is passed by the consumer which in your case is an ASP.NET application that will fetch it from the session.

Answer 2

in your service interface:

[ServiceContract]
public interface IService
{
    [OperationContract]
    string GetSessionValue();

    [OperationContract]
    void SetSessionValue(string value);
}

in your svc:

public class Service1 : IService
{
    public string GetSessionValue()
    {
        return "your value";
    }

    public void SetSessionValue(string value)
    {
        // your code here
    }
}

and finally consume that method from web code behind.

Answer 3

I searched a lot but could not find a way. Only option I found is use cookie enabled service in same virtual directory. Better to keep it as RESTful service