Question

I would like to use the Session-per-request pattern, as is done frequently when using NHibernate in an ASP.NET environment.

My first thought was to put the code to create the context in the BeginRequest event handler in Global.asax, but I discovered that this event is firing not only for the initial request that actually does the work, but also for the subsequent requests for static files such as CSS and images.

I don’t want to create a whole bunch of extra contexts when they’re not needed, so is there a way I can just get my code to run on the initial request, and not the ones for the static files?

Answer 1

1. Use constructor injection for anything which needs a context.
2. Use the DI framework of your choice and map the context.
3. Scope the context as request-scoped.