Question

Here is my case, I am working on an infrastructure for a scale able application.
I am creating a simple ASP.NET client page that consumes a WCF service with an AJAX call (simple xmlhttp object not .net script manager).
I need the 2 to share sessions, so I have instructed the ASP.NET client application to store the session in SQL with the aspnet_regsql.exe tool.

I have checked that WCF service is receiving the same session ID that the ASP.NET client produces, but in the service the session keys container is empty.

I am under an impression that it might have something to do with the app name in the configuration, but I really don’t know…

Any direction ?

Answer 1

I have found the answer to my problem.
I needed to change the “TempGetAppID” procedure in the SQL ASPState DB created with the “aspnet_regsql.exe” tool to take the APP_NAME() and not the passed argument.
That made sure that all application now share the same session.
once I have made the change the WCF Service has started to be aware of sessions inserted in my asp.net application.
problem solved.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[TempGetAppID]
@appName    tAppName,
@appId      int OUTPUT
AS
SET @appName = APP_NAME()
SET @appId = NULL

SELECT @appId = AppId
FROM [ASPState].dbo.ASPStateTempApplications
WHERE AppName = @appName