NULL reference exception while reading user sessions (Reflection)

Question

I have implemented the code for reading the active sessions using the reference Reading All Users Session and Get a list of all active sessions in ASP.NET.

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Answer 1

As of Feb. 2010, testing on IIS 10.0 (Windows 10), the above solutions didn't quite work, so I hacked together the following which worked for me. It builds on awerdan's answer and incorporates Diogo Damiani's.

    // attempt to get Asp.Net internal cache
    // adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/46554310/1086134
    private static object getAspNetInternalCacheObj ()
    {
        object aspNetCacheInternal = null;

        PropertyInfo cacheInternalPropInfo = typeof(HttpRuntime).GetProperty("CacheInternal", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static);
        if (cacheInternalPropInfo != null)
        {
            aspNetCacheInternal = cacheInternalPropInfo.GetValue(null, null);
            return aspNetCacheInternal;
        }

        // At some point, after some .NET Framework's security update, that internal member disappeared.
        // https://stackoverflow.com/a/45045160
        // 
        // We need to look for internal cache otherwise.
        //
        var cacheInternalFieldInfo = HttpRuntime.Cache.GetType().GetField("_internalCache", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static);
        if (cacheInternalFieldInfo == null)
            return null;

        var httpRuntimeInternalCache = cacheInternalFieldInfo.GetValue(HttpRuntime.Cache);
        var httpRuntimeInternalCacheField = httpRuntimeInternalCache.GetType().GetField("_cacheInternal", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
        if (httpRuntimeInternalCacheField == null)
            return null;

        aspNetCacheInternal = httpRuntimeInternalCacheField.GetValue(httpRuntimeInternalCache);
        return aspNetCacheInternal;
    }

    // adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/39422431/1086134
    private static IEnumerable getAllUserSessions()
    {
        List hTables = new List();
        object obj = getAspNetInternalCacheObj();
        if (obj == null)
            yield break;

        dynamic fieldInfo = obj.GetType().GetField("_caches", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
        //If server uses "_caches" to store session info
        if (fieldInfo != null)
        {
            object[] _caches = (object[])fieldInfo.GetValue(obj);
            for (int i = 0; i <= _caches.Length - 1; i++)
            {
                Hashtable hTable = (Hashtable)_caches[i].GetType().GetField("_entries", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(_caches[i]);
                hTables.Add(hTable);
            }
        }
        //If server uses "_cachesRefs" to store session info
        else
        {
            fieldInfo = obj.GetType().GetField("_cachesRefs", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
            object[] cacheRefs = fieldInfo.GetValue(obj);
            for (int i = 0; i <= cacheRefs.Length - 1; i++)
            {
                var target = cacheRefs[i].GetType().GetProperty("Target").GetValue(cacheRefs[i], null);
                Hashtable hTable = (Hashtable)target.GetType().GetField("_entries", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(target);
                hTables.Add(hTable);
            }
        }

        foreach (Hashtable hTable in hTables)
        {
            foreach (DictionaryEntry entry in hTable)
            {
                object o1 = entry.Value.GetType().GetProperty("Value", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(entry.Value, null);
                if (o1.GetType().ToString() == "System.Web.SessionState.InProcSessionState")
                {
                    System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateItemCollection sess = (System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateItemCollection)o1.GetType().GetField("_sessionItems", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(o1);
                    if (sess != null)
                        yield return sess;
                }
            }
        }
    }