Question

I have an ASP.NET web application that takes user input across several forms. Sort of like a wizard. On the first form, the user enters information then clicks the “Next” button. In the Click event of the button I save some information to the Session object (via Properties in the Master page). I then Redirect to the next page.

Here is an example of what I am doing:

In the fist page…

protected void NextButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs args)
{
  //Go to the next form
  Master.SessionVal1 = Value1;
  Master.SessionVal2 = Value2;
  Response.Redirect("~/TheNextPage.aspx", false);
}

In the MasterPage.cs..

public long Value1
{
    get { return (long)Session["Value1"]; }
    set { Session["Value1"] = value; }
}

public long Value2
{
    get { return (long)Session["Value2"]; }
    set { Session["Value2"] = value; }
}

Pretty basic stuff. When I run this in debug mode in VS2008 it works perfectly. When I push this to a test server (IIS7) I get NullReference exceptions when I try to access Value1, Value2, etc. which is stored in the Session object.

UPDATE:
I have discovered that if I migrate the code to one server I get the problem as described above. BUT, if I promote to another server it works as expected.

Both servers are Windows Server 2008 with IIS7. I have looked at the application pool settings and the state management settings and I do not see any differences.

Answer 1

Ok, I just added this to the web.config:

<sessionState cookieless="true" />

and that worked but there must be another way to solve this.