How to do server side state management in vNext Web Applications

Question

Earlier we have Session to manage state in an ASP.NET web applications. I'm trying to create a simple vNext MVC application where I need to do some state management. Now because System.web is gone how can I use Session in MVC 6 applications. Is it still available in Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc or anywhere else or is there some other server side state management available and how to use? Please help..

Answer 1

Update 11/2/2014

The ASP.NET team has started building a new session state middleware to enable session state in ASP.NET 5. You can check out the Session repo, which has both the Session middleware, as well as a sample.

To enable session state in an app, call:

app.UseSession();

And to read/write from it:

var some_value = context.Session.GetInt("some_value").Value;
some_value++;
context.Session.SetInt("some_value", some_value);

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Original answer

Session state is not yet implemented in ASP.NET vNext, but it is in the plans. You cannot use System.Web's session state at all because even if the app is running on full .NET, the session state implementation in System.Web is not compatible with ASP.NET vNext.