Dec 13: Accessing ASP3.0 Session Object from .NET component

New project, new challenge... How true. A coworker came to me with the following issue:
In an ASP3.0 web application we call a .NET component and we want to access the intrinsic ASP objects (for instance the Session object) from there. Now in a legacy VB COM component you would just reference mtsax.dll, declare a variable as ObjectContext and call GetObjectContext.

Private ObjectContext As MTxAS.ObjectContext
Private Session As ASPTypeLibrary.Session

Set ObjectContext = GetObjectContext()
Set Session = ObjectContext("Session")
 

After reading a lot about session integration between ASP.NET and ASP3.0 (which I was not looking for), the answer turned out to be extremely simple. Sometimes it is just a matter of looking at the right place. To quote Ohad Israeli, who pointed me in the right direction:
The answer is always there…
the problem is that you just don’t look at the right place :-)


Dim objAppServer As COMSVCSLib.AppServer
Dim objContext As COMSVCSLib.ObjectContext
Dim objSession As ASPTypeLibrary.Session

objAppServer = New COMSVCSLib.AppServer
objContext = objAppServer.GetObjectContext()
objSession = objContext("Session")      'Obtain ASP Session object.
 

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