C# Web Service Session

Vishan S Gill

15y2.6k

Hi Forum,

I've just created a windows form application in C# and a web service project (Both in one solution) in VS 2008. Everything is working fine at the moment and I am able to call the web methods in my web service class from the forms.

I'm trying to find a way to create a session id during the login process. For example a user login, and a session ID is generated and is used to communicate between the application and the service. Is there a straight forward way to do this? Or can someone point me to a right direction?

Thanks in advance
Vish

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Suthish Nair15y ago
Accepted answer
As you said you are developing a windows application and sessions are meant for web applications. You need to create a method which generate unique ids and which will pass between windows and web services for each requests and responses. For example, assuming your mode of communication is xml: pass generated unique id as an xml node in xml and pass to web service. And in response append the id with other details back to win project.
Vishan S Gill15y ago
Hi Suthish,

Thanks for your input on this. That was exactly how I implemented it, and its working just fine now.

Vish