Session and Cookies

Question

Hi I need one example session and cookies can you give me and explain it.

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

Hi Manuel Sessions can be used to store even complex data for the user just like cookies. Actually sessions will use cookies to store the data unless you explicitly tell it not to. Sessions can be used easily in ASP.NET with the Session object. We will re-use the cookie example and use sessions instead. Keep in mind though that sessions will expire after a certain amount of minutes as configured in the web.config file. Markup code: @ Page Language =  C#  AutoEventWireup =  true  CodeFile =  Default.aspx.cs  Inherits =  _Default  %> DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd > html xmlns =http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml > head runat =server > title > Sessions title > head > body runat =server id =BodyTag > form id =form1 runat =server > asp:DropDownList runat =server id =ColorSelector autopostback =true onselectedindexchanged =ColorSelector_IndexChanged > asp:ListItem value =White selected =True > Select color... asp:ListItem > asp:ListItem value =Red > Red asp:ListItem > asp:ListItem value =Green > Green asp:ListItem > asp:ListItem value =Blue > Blue asp:ListItem > asp:DropDownList > form > body > html > And here is the CodeBehind: using System; using System.Data; using System.Web; public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load( object sender EventArgs e) { if (Session[  BackgroundColor  ] != null ) { ColorSelector.SelectedValue = Session[  BackgroundColor  ].ToString(); BodyTag.Style[  background-color  ] = ColorSelector.SelectedValue; } } protected void ColorSelector_IndexChanged( object sender EventArgs e) { BodyTag.Style[  background-color  ] = ColorSelector.SelectedValue; Session[  BackgroundColor  ] = ColorSelector.SelectedValue; } } Cookies are small pieces of text stored on the client's computer to be used only by the website setting the cookies. This allows webapplications to save information for the user and then re-use it on each page if needed. Here is an example where we save a users choice of background color: @ Page Language =  C#  AutoEventWireup =  true  CodeFile =  Default.aspx.cs  Inherits =  _Default  %> DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd > html xmlns =http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml > head runat =server > title > Cookies title > head > body runat =server id =BodyTag > form id =form1 runat =server > asp:DropDownList runat =server id =ColorSelector autopostback =true onselectedindexchanged =ColorSelector_IndexChanged > asp:ListItem value =White selected =True > Select color... asp:ListItem > asp:ListItem value =Red > Red asp:ListItem > asp:ListItem value =Green > Green asp:ListItem > asp:ListItem value =Blue > Blue asp:ListItem > asp:DropDownList > form > body > html > The page simply contains a DropDownList control which automatically posts back each time a new item is selected. It has 3 different colors besides the default one which is simply white. Once a new item is selected the ColorSelector_IndexChanged method is fired from our CodeBehind file: using System; using System.Data; using System.Web; public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load( object sender EventArgs e) { if (Request.Cookies[  BackgroundColor  ] != null ) { ColorSelector.SelectedValue = Request.Cookies[  BackgroundColor  ].Value; BodyTag.Style[  background-color  ] = ColorSelector.SelectedValue; } } protected void ColorSelector_IndexChanged( object sender EventArgs e) { BodyTag.Style[  background-color  ] = ColorSelector.SelectedValue; HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(  BackgroundColor  ); cookie.Value = ColorSelector.SelectedValue; cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddHours( 1 ); Response.SetCookie(cookie); } } Please refer the below links http://asp.net-tutorials.com/state/sessions/ http://asp.net-tutorials.com/state/cookies/ Thanks