ASP.Net Session

Question

I am wanting to store the \"state\" of some actions the user is performing in a series of different ASP.Net webforms. What are my choices for persisting state, and what are

Answer 1

I think using Session object is OK in this case, but you should remember Session can expire if there is no browser activity for long time (HttpSessionState.Timeout property determines in how many minutes session-state provider terminates the session), so it's better to check for value existence before return:

public static Account GetCurrentAccount(HttpSessionState session)
{
    if (Session[ACCOUNT]!=null)
        return (Account)Session[ACCOUNT];
    else
        throw new Exception("Can't get current account. Session expired.");
}