ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

How to do it......

1. First, we add the following library to the project:

 
      "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Session": "2.0.0" 
 

2. Next, let's configure Session in Startup.cs. We also add the MVC services to use the ASP.NET MVC pipeline:

      public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) 
       { 
            services.AddSession(options => 
            { 
                options.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30); 
                options.CookieName = ".Session"; 
            }); 
 
            services.AddMvc(); 
        } 
 
      public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app) 
       { 
            app.UseSession(); 
 
            app.UseMvc(routes => 
            { 
                routes.MapRoute( 
                    name: "default", 
                    template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}"); 
            }); 
        } 

3. Next, we create some helper methods to serialize objects, to get and store objects in Session:

 // Convert an object to a byte array public ...