How to Kill A Session or Session ID (ASP.NET/C#)

Question

How can I destroy a session (Session[\"Name\"]) when the user clicks the logout button?

I\'m looking through the ASP.NET API Reference on MSDN and it doesn\'t seem t

Answer 1

Session.Abandon()

This marks the session as Abandoned, but the session won't actually be Abandoned at that moment, the request has to complete first.

Answer 2

Session["YourItem"] = "";

Works great in .net razor web pages.

Answer 3

The Abandon method should work (MSDN):

Session.Abandon();

If you want to remove a specific item from the session use (MSDN):

Session.Remove("YourItem");

EDIT: If you just want to clear a value you can do:

Session["YourItem"] = null;

If you want to clear all keys do:

Session.Clear();

If none of these are working for you then something fishy is going on. I would check to see where you are assigning the value and verify that it is not getting reassigned after you clear the value.

Simple check do:

Session["YourKey"] = "Test";  // creates the key
Session.Remove("YourKey");    // removes the key
bool gone = (Session["YourKey"] == null);   // tests that the remove worked