Grouping session variables

[firestoper]

Hi Guru's I'm not good at organizing my sessions and I always find my self scratching my head when ever I'm looking from session variable I created. Is there any technique / way that I could organize my sessions into one holder, hmm something like what Enum can do? I always port my session variables this way Session("memberID") = memberID Session("memberName")= memberName Session("memberEmail")= memberEmail is there a way that I could group then and place the group to a session? like placing Enum into session, hmm but not that actually but the idea of placing it. e.g. Public Enum MemberInfo memberID = 1 memberName = "Name" end Enum Session("memberInfo")= memberIfo regards Dom

[petersgyoung]

Your thinking is very near but Enum cannot work. You should create a Class. Storing your MemberInfo Class to session is: Dim m_memberInfo As New MemberInfo m_memberInfo.memberID=1 m_memberInfo.memberName="Name" Session("memberInfo")=m_memberInfo Retrieving data from Session is: m_memberInfo=DirectCast(Session("memberInfo"))

[firestoper]

Thanks, that would be a great idea.. hmm but are there any other object which I could explicitly group my session variable on the fly without creating another class? Dom

[firestoper]

Also was it a good practice to place class into a sessions? Regards Dom

[petersgyoung]

Where possible, you should avoid putting large objects in session because they will eat up server memory. You also need to pay special attention if your web application is on a web farm. petersgyoung