会话如何在Azure中工作

Question

How does Windows Azure handle Session is it InProc session or something else?

Also why should one not use Session and instead go for Windows Azure Cache to store transient data?

Answer 1

Session management in Windows Azure depends on how the application is deployed. If your application is deployed in Windows Azure Website , then InProc session will work. However if your application is deployed as Windows Azure Cloud Service , then InProc session will not work. Reason being the load balancer in front of your cloud service. In case of a cloud service, load balance works in a Round Robin manner and thus InProc session management would not work.

If you want, you can still use session in your cloud services however you would need to use a different session provider than default InProc provider. There is a session provider built on top of Windows Azure Cache which can be used (and is actually recommended). You don't have to make any changes in the code as far as session handling is concerned. Only thing that will change is an entry in your web.config file. Please see this link for more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg185668.aspx .