Never ending (infinite) asp(.)net C# session

Session timeout is the worst nightmare of a developer especially if you do not have much experience in coding but senior enough to design an small application which becomes a mammoth in few months.

So to all the mid-level experience guy, here is the key to success, do not make session variables in code behind, instead, create separate c# file either in app_code or in a separate project which you can call Utils as it will act like your utility file and create a public property in it which will call your DB whenever your session is null like following.

So let's create a never ending session for the c#,

Here is the scenario, suppose you have a user data-table coming from database which is on another project/DB and you have to get it through AD authentication or let's imagine it's a heavy DB call so calling, again and again, will reduce the app performance and that's why we use session which is again a non-performing thing but still better than DB chat.

Here is your user entity:

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public class UserRoleInfo { public string FullName { get; set; } public string Username { get; set; } public bool? IsManager { get; set; } public string RoleName { get; set; } public int? LoginId { get; set; } public int? EmployeeID { get; set; } public int? RoleId { get; set; } }

Create the property like below in your utility class, where GetRoleInfo will get you the roles, user details from DB.

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/// <summary> /// UserSession property /// </summary> public UserRoleInfo UserSession { get { UserRoleInfo session = (UserRoleInfo)HttpContext.Current.Session["userRoleInfo"]; if (session == null) { session = GetRoleInfo(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.Remove(0, 8)); HttpContext.Current.Session["userRoleInfo"] = session; } return session; } }

And use it while declaring an object for it like below:

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userInfoHelper = new UserInfoHelper(); if ((userInfoHelper.UserSession.RoleId == (int)UserInfo.Roles.User) || (userInfoHelper.UserSession.RoleId == (int)UserInfo.Roles.Manager)) { ddlEmployee.Enabled = false; }

Happy Coding with your infinite session, as whenever your session value will be null, it will fetch it for you.