Asp.Net 4.0 Storing Session in SqlServer

Question

I Have Database provided by shared hosting. I want to store the session in sql server but it give me error:

Unable to use SQL Server because ASP.NET version          


        

Answer 1

I believe you must have used the aspnet_regsql.exe application which then starts a wizard and then adds various aspnet_* tables to your tables.

If so then again restart the same wizard and then choose the remove option to remove all those tables from the database.

Now run this command:

aspnet_regsql.exe -ssadd -d <Your Database> -sstype c -S <Server> -U <Username> -P <Password>

This will then add two tables to your database, namely ASPStateTempApplications & ASPStateTempSessions.

Modify your web.config file to include the following configuration:

<sessionState
    mode="SQLServer"
    allowCustomSqlDatabase="true"
    sqlConnectionString="Data Source=Server;Initial Catalog=Database;User ID=UserId;Password=Password"
    cookieless="false" timeout="20" />

NOTE: 1. I have assumed that you want to store session within your applications database. If you want to maintain the session database separately then run the above command without the "-d" parameter. This will create a new ASPState database with two table that I have specified above. And finally you can specify the name of this database in your configuration.

Hope this helps :)