The session state Information is invalid and might be corrupted in ASP.Net

Question

I am using ASP.Net 3.5 with C#,Development ID:Visual Studio 2008. When I am using

Session["FileName1"] = "text1.txt" 

it is working fine, but then I am using

number1=17;
string FileName1="FileName1" + number1.toString(); 

then setting with

Session[FileName1]="text1.txt";

gives me runtime error

The session state information is invalid and might be corrupted at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateItemCollection.Deserializer(BinaryReader reader)

Can anybody solve my problem, when I am using string in the Session variable? Remember it works on my development machine (meaning local Visual Studio) but when deployed to the server it gives mentioned error.

Answer 1

Make sure the FileName1 variable is not null before trying to access it via the Session[FileName1] syntax...

Here's a link to someone else that was having the same problem: http://forums.asp.net/t/1069600.aspx

Here's his answer:

In the code, I found the following line:

//some code
Session.Add(sessionVarName, sessionVarValue);
//some other code

Apparently, because of some dirty data, there is a time when sessionVarName is null.

Session.Add will not throw any exception in this case, and if your Session Mode is "InProc", there will be no problem. However, if your Session Mode is "SQLServer", during deserialization of the session store, you will got the exception that I got. So, to filter out dirty data, I modified the code to become:

if (sessionVarName != null)
{
  //somecode
  Session.Add(sessionVarName, sessionVarValue);
  //some other code
}  

Answer 2

the reason of your error is

xyz = new Guid() is also xyz= Guid.Empty;

so when you try to convert to string it's throw error.

just modify you code something like that.

Guid guId = System.Guid.NewGuid(); 
string x = guId .ToString();
string FileName1="text1.txt" + x;
Session[FileName1]="text1.txt";

Answer 3

Check your values before storing them in session they may cause this exception during deserialization of the session store, Filter your data . Check Here

if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(FileName1))
{
  Session.Add(FileName1, "text1.txt");
}

Or check for Invalid characters in your string .

Answer 4

You can add the Value into session Like this

    string FileName1="FileName1" + number1.toString(); 

if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(FileName1))
{
  Session.Add(FileName1, "text1.txt");
}