Session Variables - Return Error

[jzelhart]

I get the following error when I try to retrieve Session
Variables using this code:

Dim mstrPassword As String = CType(Session.Item
("gstrPassword&quot, String)

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Session
state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to
true, either in a configuration file or in the Page
directive

According to everything that I have read and found this
is set to true. I have manually set it - checked in IS.

Does anyone have any ideas?

THANKS!

Jennifer

 

[Zarcom]

In your web.config file you should have a section like this
<sessionState
mode=&quot;InProc&quot;
cookieless=&quot;false&quot;
timeout=&quot;20&quot;
/>

I believe the mode=&quot;InProc&quot; is the property that your looking for. Make sure that bit is in your web.config file.




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[jzelhart]

<sessionState
mode=&quot;InProc&quot;
stateConnectionString=&quot;tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424&quot;
sqlConnectionString=&quot;data source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes&quot;
cookieless=&quot;true&quot;
timeout=&quot;20&quot;

/>

 

[jzelhart]

I also tried changing it to

<sessionState
mode=&quot;InProc&quot;
cookieless=&quot;false&quot;
timeout=&quot;20&quot;

/>

but still got the message.

I hit submit too fast sorry!

Thanks for helping

 

[Zarcom]

No prob. Your first post is the correct bit for the session state section. I had just clipped it a bit to shorten the post. Not sure what it could be but I'll try to look into it and will let you know what I find.

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[jzelhart]

Thank you, I am stumped - as you can tell I am new to .Net - as a matter of fact this is my first .Net Application.

I am off for the holiday weekend but I will hopefully here from you or anyone else that has an idea next week.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Jennifer

 

[jzelhart]

Has anyone had this problem?

 

[Zarcom]

Does your page directive explicitly set enableSessionState to false?

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[jzelhart]

The following is my page directive.

<%@ Page Language=&quot;vb&quot; AutoEventWireup=&quot;false&quot; Codebehind=&quot;webLogin.aspx.vb&quot; Inherits=&quot;CustomerSupport.webLogin&quot;%>

I have tried explicitly setting it to true here as well as the web.config but neither together or separatly helped.

Could I be missing something on the IIS side?

Thanks,

Jennifer

 

[Zarcom]

You've got me stumped on this Jennifer sorry. I'll see what I can dig up, in the mean time hopefully a fellow member will have some ideas.

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[jzelhart]

Thanks Mark!

Is there any other way to store information between pages. I am trying to save the users Login, Password and Software Selection. This is a customer support site.

 

[jzelhart]

Found out what I was doing wrong...

I needed to move the setting mstrPassword equal to the Session Variable to the Page Load instead of where I dim
the Module Level Variable.

Learning is such fun but VB.Net looks like it will be well worth it.

 

[Zarcom]

congrats!

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