Microsoft.Web.RedisSessionStateProvider not working

[haripradhan]

I created a simple ASP.NET application with Microsoft.Web.RedisSessionStateProvider nuget package (v. 2.2.4) installed, and then tested it with local redis server. It didn't work :(. It uses in-memory session storage which is really strange.

However, I again created another ASP.NET application with Microsoft.Web.RedisSessionStateProviderEx nuget package (which then installs Microsoft.Web.RedisSessionStateProvider v.1.1.0.0), and it luckily worked.

I wonder if anyone has come across this problem?

I have attached the following zip files:

1. Redis1.zip which has Microsoft.Web.RedisSessionStateProvider, and
2. Redis2.zip which has Microsoft.Web.RedisSessionStateProviderEx.

Redis1.zip
Redis2.zip

[SiddharthChatrolaMs]

is you local redis running on port other than 6379?

[haripradhan]

It is running on the default port which is 6379.

[mapalan]

The issue here is that the web.config in the first zip file did not include StackExchange.Redis.StrongName as a dependent assembly, whereas the second one did.