Articles on the inner workings of Session State Management (ASP.NET)

Question

Hi everyone,

I’m currently doing some work involving optimization of session-related code. The code I work on uses a state server approach in a web farm environment. I want to deeply understand what happens session-wise when a request occurs on the server.

So far I’ve found two great articles on the matter:

• Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications
• Underpinnings of the Session State Implementation in ASP.NET - msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479041.aspx (I can't post more than two links as I am a new SO user)

Does anyone know of other articles that would help me understanding better the inner workings of session state management? I would really like to find an article that talks about the on-demand deserialization mentioned in the first link above.

Thank you in advance !

Answer 1

You may also want to look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178581.aspx . From there you can also look at some older versions. It also leads so some other important links and have enough examples as well.