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Asp.Net 5 MVC + Redis + Custom session provider

Integration Asp,Net MVC 5 + Redis (DB nosql memory) + custom session provider

A barebone project that integrate Asp.Net MVC 5 and Redis database as custom session storage.

Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value cache and store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and hyperloglogs.

I used redis as custom session storage.

I used NUGET RedisSessionProvider provided by microsoft for write session in redis.

<b>Web.Config:</b>
<sessionState mode="Custom" customProvider="RedisSessionProvider">      
  <providers>
    <add 
      name="RedisSessionProvider" type="RedisSessionProvider.RedisSessionStateStoreProvider, RedisSessionProvider" />
  </providers>
</sessionState>

<b>Global.Asax:</b>
public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
    private static ConfigurationOptions redisConfigOpts;

    protected void Application_Start()
    {
        ...

        // assign your local Redis instance address, can be static
        MvcApplication.redisConfigOpts = ConfigurationOptions.Parse("127.0.0.1:6379");

        // pass it to RedisSessionProvider configuration class
        RedisConnectionConfig.GetSERedisServerConfig = (HttpContextBase context) =>
        {
            return new KeyValuePair<string, ConfigurationOptions>(
                "DefaultConnection",				// if you use multiple configuration objects, please make the keys unique
                MvcApplication.redisConfigOpts);
        };
    }
}

<b>Controller:</b>
Session[SessionName] = "My value";

easy peasy...

Why Redis? Well in a web farm with a load balancer without stiky session we need to centralize our Session... or eventually Cache... Redis perform very well in high volume of writing / reading. Redis is a Key/Value based.. and of course it must be deployed on a third box (better linux).

Perfect for session / cache / or state storage....extremely useful for Web.Api