Maintain Session Variables in ASP .Net Projects

Most of the ASP .net web projects maintain their session variables in an inconsistent way. Sometimes it’s harder to read and maintain. Here is a best way to maintain session variables in your web project. This will increase the maintainability and readability. 

Approach: Add a new class to the web project and expose session objects as static properties.

1: using System;

2: using System.Web;

3:  

4: namespace SessionTest

5: {

6:     /// 

7:     /// Hold all session variables

8:     /// 

9:     public static class ApplicationSession

10:     {

11:         /// 

12:         /// Hold the search key

13:         /// 

14:         public static string SearchKey

15:         {

16:             get

17:             {

18:                 return Convert.ToString(HttpContext.Current.Session["SearchKey"]);

19:             }

20:             set

21:             {

22:                 HttpContext.Current.Session["SearchKey"] = value;

23:             }

24:         }

25:     }

26: }

Web Page

1: using System;

2: using System.Web.UI;

3:  

4: namespace SessionTest

5: {

6:     /// 

7:     /// Code behind for the page

8:     /// 

9:     public partial class SessionTest : Page

10:     {

11:         protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

12:         {

13:             if (!IsPostBack)

14:             {

15:                 // Access the session

16:                 string currentSearchKey = ApplicationSession.SearchKey;

17:  

18:                 // Set new value

19:                 ApplicationSession.SearchKey = "Customer";

20:             }

21:         }

22:     }

23: }