.NET and ASP 3.0 mixed environments

[mholocher638]

I've been developing ASP applications for the past few years. I'm FINALLY beginning to look at .NET for future developments. I currently have a coporate extranet developed completely in ASP. I want to begin to "migrate" some pieces of our extranet over to .NET. My first application was using Forms-Based authentication which works great! I create session variables from my login screen that I use throughout my current extranet. Upon successful authentication I create these session variables then call an existing ASP 3.0 page. I'm having issues, however, retrieving the information stored in the session variables that were created in a .aspx page. Is that right? Am I able to mix environments between .NET and legacy ASP applications?

 

For some reason it seems to make sense that I can do this but it doesn't seem to work.

[PlausiblyDamp]

Unfortunately the ASP.Net runtime stores it's session variables seperate to the ASP runtime so they cannot see each others. This is a result of how ASP.Net state management has been improved (now works across web farms etc).

How much data is being stored in these session variables - two possible fixes are if the data is small pass as a query string or if large shove it into a database and pass a reference across in the query string.

[mholocher638]

That's what I was thinking after much testing I noticed the sessions were handled separately. Thanks for the reply.