Is there a way to access the collection of current sessions in ASP.NET?

Question

Is there any way to access the collection of current sessions in ASP.NET globally from the application?

Thanks.

Answer 1

No, sessions are sandboxed, they are totally separate from each other. What you could do is managing a psueudo-session collection in the shared Application object and implement the Session_Start method to populate that collection.

Answer 2

I don't think so, but you can manage your own list in the global.a s a x

void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{
    //add current session to your own application shared collection
}

void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{
    //remove session
}

Answer 3

If you store session state in SQL Server, you would have access to all the sessions via SQL Server.

There is also Application State - which can be used to access information across the application, but this has many caveats.