What is the difference between Session.Abandon() and Session.Clear()

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What is the difference between destroying a session and removing its values? Can you please provide an example demonstrating this?

I searched for this question, but don't grasp total answer. Some answers are:

  • Session.Abandon() destroys the session
  • Session.Clear() just removes all values

A friend told me this:

Clearing the session will not unset the session, it still exists with the same ID for the user but with the values simply cleared.

Abandon will destroy the session completely, meaning that you need to begin a new session before you can store any more values in the session for that user.

The below code works and doesn't throw any exceptions.

Session.Abandon();
Session["tempKey1"] = "tempValue1";

When you Abandon() a Session, you (or rather the user) will get a new SessionId

When I test Session, it doesn't makes any change when I Abandon the session.

I just find one difference: session.Abandon() raises Session_End event

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10 Answers
Session.Abandon()

will destroy/kill the entire session.

Session.Clear()

removes/clears the session data (i.e. the keys and values from the current session) but the session will be alive.

Compare to Session.Abandon() method, Session.Clear() doesn't create the new session, it just make all variables in the session to NULL.

Session ID will remain same in both the cases, as long as the browser is not closed.

Session.RemoveAll()

It removes all keys and values from the session-state collection.

Session.Remove()

It deletes an item from the session-state collection.

Session.RemoveAt()

It deletes an item at a specified index from the session-state collection.

Session.TimeOut()

This property specifies the time-out period assigned to the Session object for the application. (the time will be specified in minutes).

If the user does not refresh or request a page within the time-out period, then the session ends.

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I think it would be handy to use Session.Clear() rather than using Session.Abandon().

Because the values still exist in session after calling later but are removed after calling the former.

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