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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:29:29+00:00

I have a c# asp.net MVC project. I am doing a a search and

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I have a c# asp.net MVC project. I am doing a a search and want to access the search results on the details page of one of the search results.

This is so that I can have < prev | next > links on the detail pages that will link to the next property in the last search results.

My approach so far is to put the search results object into a session variable, but I can’t figure out the code to actually access it. When I do a watch on Session["SearchResults"] below, I can see the records in the Result View, which seems to hold an array.

I know someone is going to tell me I’m thinking about this all wrong, and I can’t wait to be enlightened.

Someone suggested I should just store the last search results on the repository as a public property, would that be a better option? Or can someone recommend an altogether better way of doing what I need to do?

This is my controller

public ActionResult Search(int? page, Search search)
{

    search.regusApi =  Convert.ToBoolean(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["regusApiLiveInventory"]);
    Session["SearchResults"] = MeetingRoomRepositoryWG.Search(search).AsPagination(page ?? 1, 7);

    return View(new SearchResultsWG { SearchCriteria = search, Locations = MeetingRoomRepositoryWG.Search(search).AsPagination(page ?? 1, 7) });
}

public ActionResult NiceDetails(String suburb, String locationName, int id)
{
        **Here I want to acceess the session variable**

        return View(MeetingRoomRepositoryWG.RoomDetails(id).First());
}

Here is the code from the repository:

public static List<Location> Search(Search search)
{

    String LongLatString = search.LongLat;
    LongLatString = LongLatString.Substring(1, LongLatString.Length - 2);

    var LonLatSplit = LongLatString.Split(',');
    var latitude = Convert.ToDecimal(LonLatSplit[0]);
    var longitude = Convert.ToDecimal(LonLatSplit[1]);

    using (var context = new MyContext())
    {
        var query = context.Locations.Include("Location_LonLats").ToList();

        query.OrderBy(x => (Convert.ToDecimal(x.Location_LonLats.Lat) - latitude) * (Convert.ToDecimal(x.Location_LonLats.Lat) - latitude)
                 + (Convert.ToDecimal(x.Location_LonLats.Lon) - longitude) * (Convert.ToDecimal(x.Location_LonLats.Lon) - longitude));

        return query;
    }
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Not sure how large the data is you search against but, it’s better to not store search results at all. It will scale very poorly and become a resource hog quite easily. Why store e.g. 500 pages of search results if the user only ends up looking at 1 or 3?
    How long are you going to hold these potentially large result sets in session storage? For how many users?

    Just do a page based search, essentially redoing the search for each “next” click the client does. A good index or something like Lucene.net can help if your searches are too slow.

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