February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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10.17. Compress Session State
It is generally a good rule to avoid storing anything in session unless absolutely necessary, but if you must, ASP.NET 4.0 allows you to compress session state. Session state compression cannot be used by an in-process session so is applicable only if your application is using state or SQL Server. To compress session state, simply set the compressionEnabled property to true in Web.config:
<sessionState compressionEnabled="true"></sessionState>
Session state is compressed using the GZip algorithm. It is important to note that compressing session requires a server to do more work so could adversely impact on the performance of your application.