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Article ID: 321023 - Last Review: January 19, 2004 - Revision: 5.1
FIX: Cannot Use Null Key Values for Session Variables in SQL Server Mode or State Server Mode
This article was previously published under Q321023
If you use null key values for session variables in the
State Server session state mode or SQL Server session state mode in ASP.NET,
you receive the following error message:
Server Error in
'/SessionNullKB' Application.
Value cannot be
null. Parameter name: value
Exception Details:
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: value
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft
products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This bug was corrected in ASP.NET (included with the .NET
Framework) 1.1.
Microsoft recommends that you not use null key values for
session variables.
Steps to Reproduce the Behavior
- Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
- On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
- Click Visual C# Projects under Project Types, and then click ASP.NET Web Application under Templates.
- Add the following code in the code-behind file
(WebForm1.aspx.cs) in the Page_Load event handler:
Session[null]="testSession";
- In the Web.config file, modify the mode attribute in the <sessionState> element to use SQL Server or State Server mode. Make sure that
the user id account has permissions on the database. For example:
<sessionState
mode="SQLServer"
stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;user id=<username>;password=<password>"
cookieless="false"
timeout="20"
/>
-or-
<sessionState
mode="StateServer"
stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;user id=<username>;password=<strong password>"
cookieless="false"
timeout="20"
/>
- Build the project.
- Open the WebForm1.aspx page in your browser. You receive
the error message that is listed in the "Symptoms" section.
For additional information, click
the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
307598Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=307598/EN-US/
)
INFO: ASP.NET State Management Overview
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