Problem with public static hashtable in C#

[stoogots2]

am using Visual Studio 2003, .Net Framework 1.1, C#. I get a SystemNullReferenceException when trying to do a hashtable.add(string,string) from a login page, and I do not understand why because all of the other data items from the Global.asax.cs are accessible in my pages. The key and value are not null (according to the watch window), so it is something else. This is likely something retarded, so I apologize in advance. It is my first attempt at a hash table. I am trying to store userid and sessionid for logging, statistics, troubleshooting (lol), etcetera.

Code Snippit from Global.asax.cs
public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
{

private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;
public static string DatabaseConnectionString;
public static int NumberOfConnections;
public static int TotalConnectionsServiced;
public static DateTime DateStarted;
public static int FailedLoginAttempts;
public static int SuccessfulLoginAttempts;
public static string ErrorLogFile;
public static int TotalPagesServed;
public static Hashtable SessionTable;
public static Hashtable SessionTableSync;

public Global()
{
InitializeComponent();

DatabaseConnectionString=(string ) System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSett ings["DBNameAndPath"];
NumberOfConnections=0;
TotalConnectionsServiced=0;
FailedLoginAttempts=0;
SuccessfulLoginAttempts=0;
ErrorLogFile=(string ) System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSett ings["ErrorLogFile"];
TotalPagesServed=0;
DateStarted=System.DateTime.Now;
Hashtable SessionTable = new Hashtable();
Hashtable SessionTableSync = Hashtable.Synchronized(SessionTable);


Code Snippit from login.aspx----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Session.Add("UserID",sUserid);
Session.Add("FullName",sFullname);
Global.SuccessfulLoginAttempts++;
//System.NullReferenceException on the next line
Global.SessionTableSync.Add(sUserid,Session.Sessio nID); //tried with .ToString() also

I'm not trying to be dense, but I do have more of a procedural background than OO.

Thanks in advance,

Nick

[kenobewan]

What's the value of session.sessionID? The thing that you have to think of in this situation is, I've got a problem how can I debug it? 1st POC the line that throws the exception, then work backwards. HTH.

[Plater]

Did .net1.1 applications not have a Session object built in to use?

[stoogots2]

What's the value of session.sessionID? The thing that you have to think of in this situation is, I've got a problem how can I debug it? 1st POC the line that throws the exception, then work backwards. HTH.

Thanks for the advice. SessionID is an alphanumeric value. Both the key and value I'm trying to insert are alphanumeric actually. It seems like the login.aspx cannot find the Global.SessionTableSync hashtable. I am very confused because other items (int and string) are accessible using Global.variablename. What is POC?

-Nick

[stoogots2]

Did .net1.1 applications not have a Session object built in to use?

There is a Session Object in .Net 1.1.

[Plater]

So then I am confused, why do you appear to be implementing your own?

[stoogots2]

Gotcha, I want to store all active sessions and associated userids in a hashtable. When Session_End, I delete the key and userid value. Session_Start occurs before the login.aspx is posted back to the server.

-Nick