Cant get the value from a textbox control into session object

[Chumley the Walrus]

I have a textbox control that represents a username in a password
scheme, and I'm trying to turn the ID of the textbox control (the id =
lgname ) into a session object. Doing lgname.text = Session("lgname")
is not working, as I don't see the entered username on the next page
when I simply do a hard code such as Response.write
(session("lgname"))

 

[chanmmn]

I think your have misunderstand about session variable.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;196074

It is the same concept for asp and aspx.

chanmm

 

[Scott Allen]

Hi Chumley,

Session("lgname") = lgname.Text would place the Text property into a
session varialble. Having the statement reversed is trying to read the
session variable into the TextBox.

 

[TPS]

Chumley.

To get the value from the textbox on your page and put it into a session
variable do this:

Session.Add("UserName",TextBox.Text.Trim());

or you could do this:

Session["UserName"] = TextBox.Text.Trim();

To get the Session variable back out to populate your text box, do this:

TextBox.Text = (string)Session["UserName"];

you need to cast "(string)" the session Username object back into a string.

hth,
TPS.