Usage of Session object in ASP.NET

Question

I\'ve just been given a new task to bootstrap a website created by someone else. But I\'m absolutely new to Web. The website is in ASP.NET,C#. The code itself is not hard to

Answer 1

HTTP by nature is stateless. The WebServer doesn't know any details after it processes the request and sends back to the client. Thus, any subsequent requests are like fresh requests to the server.

To Enable the Server to remember & subsequently recognize what it served to the client, ASP.NET uses various mechanisms of which Session is one of them.

Session is created per user. So, in your Page, you are fetching the "connSTR" are storing it. Whenever a subsequent request comes from the same user, by querying Session with the key

Session["connSTR"]

you get back its value. Since Session is an Object, its casted as a string in your code.