Problem retrieving object from Session

[Ramin Tarhande]

I store my data in an object an put it into Session sometimes when I want to get back the object from session I encounter an error message saying the object is null note: -the object is large (including some DataSets) -when I run in Debug mode it always works ok! could anybody help me solve the problem? :confused: thx il nome mio nessun sapra

[Colin Angus Mackay]

Without seeing more of your code it's difficult to say. However, the following is a good set of guidlines to accessing Session variables in a safe way.

public DataSet MyDataSet
{
get
{
return Session["MyDataSet"] as DataSet;
}
set
{
Session["MyDataSet"] = value;
}
}

That was you reduce the chance of getting errors where you accidentally mistype the key string that goes in the indexer property because they will only exist twice. Secondly, the property is strongly typed. You only get a DataSet out, and you can only put a dataset in. There is no chance you accidentally put the wrong object into the Session. You will only get null out if there is nothing in the session. If you do this manually each time there is the possibility of an error putting the wrong object in the session and the Session["VariableName"] as DataSet returning null. You also mentioned that it works in Debug Mode. Are you doing anything differenly in debug builds? Do you have and #if DEBUG ... #endif blocks anywhere? --Colin Mackay--

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