21.1. Accessing HTTP-Specific Information from Within a Class
Problem
You want to create a business service class that can be used by any page in your site, and you want it to have access to the HTTP-specific information available in web pagesâthat is, all the server objects used by the application.
Solution
Add a reference to the System.Web
assembly in your business service project and a companion Imports
statement (or using
statement in C#) to your class, and use the Current
property of the HttpContext
object to access the desired server objects.
In the business service class, use the .NET language of your choice to:
Add a reference to
System.Web
.Import the
System.Web
namespace.Reference the current HTTP context when accessing server objects, as in
HTTPContext.Current.Session
.
Examples 21-1 and 21-2 show the VB and C# class files for an example business service that implements this solution.
Discussion
By referencing the Current
property of the HttpContext
object in the business class, your code has full access to all the server objects used in web applications. This includes the ability to access all information about the request being made, the response being returned, session data, and application data. For more information, refer to the HttpContext
class in the MSDN documentation.
When you create an ASP.NET application with Visual Studio .NET, all the pages and classes of the web project have access to the HTTP-specific information. This is because Visual Studio automatically adds ...
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