session-state-server

ASP.NET Session State Server vs. InProc Session

What is the overhead performance penalty for running Session State Server instead of InProc? Is it significant? I understand that you can restart w3wp with the state server and retain all session state - is that the only advantage over InProc? ...

Asp.net 2.0 Button click method works inconsistently in a web garden

We have a asp.net 2.0 web application that is running on IIS7. It is using web gardens and asp.net state server. On the page, there are many user controls. On one of the user controls, we have added logging on the button_click event that writes a line in the log whenever that method runs. When we click the button, it only periodically ...

Why is my SessionIDManager child class not being asked to CreateSessionID ?

I have implemented a web app using session state management as per the instructions found on: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2008/01/ASPNET-Session-State-Partitioning-using-State-Server-Load-Balancing.aspx http://en.aspnet-bhs.info/post/State-Server-Partitioning.aspx My SessionIDManager inheritor includes the code: public class ...

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

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 Secur...