DevForce Community Forum : ASP.NET session state http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : DevForce 2010 : ASP.NET session state Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:02:56 -700 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:33:24 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2818 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ ASP.NET session state : Scott, Rather than trying to... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2818&PID=11208#11208 Author: robertg
Subject: 2818
Posted: 11-Jul-2011 at 11:33am

Scott,
 
Rather than trying to serialize the EntityManager, what you actually want to use is the EntityCacheState. You can take that cache state, store it in your session, and then restore it into your EntityManager on your next page load, thus providing the data persistence you're looking for.
 
Here's the relevant page on the DRC for using the CacheState.
 
http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/start-entity-cache#HExportcacheasanEntityCacheState
 
Yours,
Robert
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Subject: 2818
Posted: 11-Jul-2011 at 10:06am

I needed to switch over to SQL session state for asp.net and I've run into a problem where IB entities aren't serialized (at least the session manager doesn't think they are). So I do a normal entity manager call and get an entity set back. Trying to put this in Session throws an error "Unable to serialize the session state...".
Everything I've found so far says that you need the serialize attribute on the class and I see where there's a datacontract attribute, but I have run into problems before where I had to have both. Is there an easy way to handle this? I would hate to either call the database every time to get this data or create a dummy class to transition the entity to.
 
Thanks.
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