ASP.NET Session States in SQLServer for multiuser and loadbalancing solution

This topic is for those who want to manage multi server websites and load balancing.

Prerequisites:

• IIS 6.0 or higher
• .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5
• VS 2008, 2005
• ASP.NET 2.0 or higher

How To in WinXP Professional?

1. In SQL Server management consol
2. Open file from path "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallPersistSqlState.sql"
3. Execute this script file on master database
4. Go to command prompt of windows (Start->Run->cmd)
5. Type net stop w3svc
6. press Enter key
7. Type net start w3svc
8. press Enter key
9. type iisreset
10. press Enter key
11. type net start aspstate
12. press Enter key
13. type aspnet_regsql
14. press Enter key
15. follow the instruction (by default next, next) (specify database aspstate)
16. Type net stop w3svc
17. press Enter key
18. Type net start w3svc
19. press Enter key
20. type iisreset
21. press Enter key
22. type net start aspstate
23. press Enter key

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• modify your web.config with following

 <sessionState mode="SQLServer" sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1; user id=<username>;password=<password>; "

cookieless="true"

timeout="20" />

• (optional) modify your machine.config for all web servers with follwoing (dont user following, generate your new machine key)

<machineKey validationKey='A130E240DF1C49E2764EF8A86CEDCBB11274E5298A130CA08B90EED016C0

14CEAE1D86344C29E67E99DF83347E43820050A2B9C9FC89E0574BF3394B6D0401A9'

decryptionKey='2CC37FFA8D14925B9CBCC0E3B1506F35066FEF33FEB4ADC8' validation='SHA1'/>