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ASP.Net Session_Start event not firing

I have an ASP.Net 2.0 application in which the Session_Start event is not firing in my Global.asax file. Can anyone tell why this is happening and how I can get it working?

The application worked fine on my Windows XP development machine, but stopped working when deployed to the server (Win Server 2003/IIS 6/ASP.Net 2.0).

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the server also hosts a SharePoint installation (WSS 3.0) which I know does change some settings at the default web site level.

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Are you sure the website in IIS is set to use ASP.NET 2.0 rather than 1.1?

Macka  2008-09-16 12:21:56
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Is the site precompiled before adding global.asax? Try compiling it again.

Gulzar  2008-09-16 12:23:34
The entire site has been compiled and recompiled several times, I can step into other code that is in the Global.asax file e.g. Application_Start()
Jazza  2008-09-16 13:07:26
can you create a copy of the site and see if the problem occurs on the copy as well?
Gulzar  2008-09-16 13:18:24
Whilst not quite answering the question, the point about whether or not the site was precompiled was just the hint I needed to solve the problem, which was a missing PrecompiledApp.config file on the production server. Thanks @Gulzar
Jazza  2009-08-26 13:41:26
+1  A: 

Is the <session /> section in the web.config?

craigmoliver  2008-10-10 17:50:00
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I had to remove the following tag in SharePoint 2010 web.config:

< remove name="Session" />

Brad Jareczek  2010-05-12 16:39:29

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