How to use sessions in an ASP.NET MVC 4 application?

Question

I am new to ASP.NET MVC. I have used PHP before and it was easy to create a session and select user records based on the current session variables.

I have looked ev

Answer 1

This is how session state works in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC:

ASP.NET Session State Overview

Basically, you do this to store a value in the Session object:

Session["FirstName"] = FirstNameTextBox.Text;

To retrieve the value:

var firstName = Session["FirstName"];