Question

I needed to create a simple fast login form for an internal company project I’m working on. I saw this tut on how to do it using vb – looked really fast and easy. I ran it through a converter to change it to C# but when I load the page, this is the error I get:

CS0103: The name 'Session' does not exist in the current context

With the following code:

<script runat="server">
    public void Login(object s, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (tbUserName.Text == "admin" & tbPassword.Text == "admin")
        {
            Session("Admin") = true;
            Response.Redirect("Dashboard.aspx");
        }
        else
        {
            Session("Admin") = false;
            litLogin.Visible = true;
            litLogin.Text = "<p>Sorry you have provided incorrect login details.</p>";

        }
    }
</script>

EDIT Adding brackets helps on the login page, but on the page im trying to protect you have to check for the session like this:

    <form id="form1" runat="server">
<script runat="server">
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        if (Session["Admin"] != true)
        {
            Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");
        }
    }

</script>

And it throws CS0019: Operator '!=' cannot be applied to operands of type 'object' and 'bool'

Answer 1

In C#, you need to use [and ] for indexers.

In other words, replace

Session("Admin")

With

Session["Admin"]

In response to your edit:

if (Session["Admin"] != true)

Should be cast to bool, so you should try:

if (!(bool)Session["Admin"]) 

(No need to compare a boolean value with true/false)