What actually causes Session_Start to be called?

Question

In a little demo application that I\'m building I put code to initialize the database in the Global.Session_Start() event. However, I notice that this event does not fire w

Answer 1

I know this is an old post but maybe this will help somebody:

The session_start doesn't fire unless you are actually reading or writing to the session object.

If you want to utilize the session_start event but don't need to use the session store at all, you can add the following to the page directive of your landing pages:

<%@ Page EnableSessionState="ReadOnly" %>

This will cause the session_start event to fire without you having to store anything in the session object.