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Hi

I have developed a shopping cart webproject, and used the session id stored
as key in a access database to hold the purchased item.

Is there any disadvantage of this method VS using a serialize(d) class to
save to the data.

TIA
Barry
Sep 7 '06 #1
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I have developed a shopping cart webproject, and used the session id
stored as key in a access database to hold the purchased item.

Is there any disadvantage of this method VS using a serialize(d) class to
save to the data.
You need to be *really* careful with Session IDs...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=899918
Sep 7 '06 #2

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