Catching Session start in HTTPModules

[DamienS]

Hi,

I'm trying to get away from using global.asax for reasons of
'neatness'.

Am I able to register a HTTPModule that captures the starting of a
user session? Isn't Session_Start an event in global.asax? ... and
isn't global.asax exposing events of HttpApplication?

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance,
Damien

public class clsSessionManager : IHttpModule
{
#region IHttpModule Members

void IHttpModule.Dispose()
{
}

void IHttpModule.Init(HttpApplication context)
{
// I would have thought that I could use
context.SessionStart+= here....
}

#endregion
}

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

I put all kinds of code , static methods and fields in Global.asax and it is
very neat (at least to me).
You can use Session in an HttpModule by implementing the marker interface
IRequiresSessionState.
Peter
"DamienS" <da**********@yahoo.com.auwrote in message
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Hi,

I'm trying to get away from using global.asax for reasons of
'neatness'.

Am I able to register a HTTPModule that captures the starting of a
user session? Isn't Session_Start an event in global.asax? ... and
isn't global.asax exposing events of HttpApplication?

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance,
Damien

public class clsSessionManager : IHttpModule
{
#region IHttpModule Members

void IHttpModule.Dispose()
{
}

void IHttpModule.Init(HttpApplication context)
{
// I would have thought that I could use
context.SessionStart+= here....
}

#endregion
}

[DamienS]

Thanks very much Peter.

I'm having trouble finding the session_start event though. It appears
in global.asax, however I can't find any other reference to it in the
framework. I've read up on IRequiresSessionState and understand that I
can use it to see if the current context requires a session, however
what I'm trying to do is capture when a session begins. Is there any
way to do this outside of global.asax?

After digging around some more, I'm now really curious - 'where' is
the session_start event in global.asax defined? Why doesn't it appear
in the object model? I notice that there's a AcquireRequestState event
on HttpApplication described as "Occurs when ASP.NET acquires the
current state (for example, session state) that is associated with the
current request." - however, to me, this description doesn't say that
it fires when a new session is created.

Thanks in advance,
Damien


On Jul 1, 1:07*pm, "Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

I put all kinds of code , static methods and fields in Global.asax and it is
very neat (at least to me).
You can useSessionin an HttpModule by implementing the marker interface
IRequiresSessionState.
Peter"DamienS" <[e-mail] in message

news:5b**********************************@q24g2000 prf.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

I'm trying to get away from using global.asax for reasons of
'neatness'.

Am I able to register a HTTPModule that captures the starting of a
usersession? Isn't Session_Start an event in global.asax? ... and
isn't global.asax exposing events of HttpApplication?

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance,

Damien

public class clsSessionManager : IHttpModule
* *{
* * * *#region IHttpModule Members

* * * *void IHttpModule.Dispose()
* * * *{
* * * *}

* * * *void IHttpModule.Init(HttpApplication context)
* * * *{
* * * * * // I would have thought that I could use
context.SessionStart+= here....
* * * *}

* * * *#endregion
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