I would like to share my magic. Actually, no, its not yet magical.. We ought to test and evolve the code more.
I only tested these code in with-cookie, InProc session mode. Put these method inside your page, and call it where you need the ID to be regenerated (please set your web app to Full Trust):
void regenerateId()
{
System.Web.SessionState.SessionIDManager manager = new System.Web.SessionState.SessionIDManager();
string oldId = manager.GetSessionID(Context);
string newId = manager.CreateSessionID(Context);
bool isAdd = false, isRedir = false;
manager.SaveSessionID(Context, newId, out isRedir, out isAdd);
HttpApplication ctx = (HttpApplication)HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance;
HttpModuleCollection mods = ctx.Modules;
System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule ssm = (SessionStateModule)mods.Get("Session");
System.Reflection.FieldInfo[] fields = ssm.GetType().GetFields(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
SessionStateStoreProviderBase store = null;
System.Reflection.FieldInfo rqIdField = null, rqLockIdField = null, rqStateNotFoundField = null;
foreach (System.Reflection.FieldInfo field in fields)
{
if (field.Name.Equals("_store")) store = (SessionStateStoreProviderBase)field.GetValue(ssm);
if (field.Name.Equals("_rqId")) rqIdField = field;
if (field.Name.Equals("_rqLockId")) rqLockIdField = field;
if (field.Name.Equals("_rqSessionStateNotFound")) rqStateNotFoundField = field;
}
object lockId = rqLockIdField.GetValue(ssm);
if ((lockId != null) && (oldId !=null)) store.ReleaseItemExclusive(Context, oldId, lockId);
rqStateNotFoundField.SetValue(ssm, true);
rqIdField.SetValue(ssm, newId);
}
I have been digging around .NET Source code (that were available in http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx), and discovered that there is no way I could regenerate SessionID without hacking the internals of session management mechanism. So I do just that – hack SessionStateModule internal fields, so it will save the current Session into a new ID. Maybe the current HttpSessionState object still has the previous Id, but AFAIK the SessionStateModule ignored it. It just use the internal _rqId field when it has to save the state somewhere. I have tried other means, like copying SessionStateModule into a new class with a regenerate ID functionality, (I was planning to replace SessionStateModule with this class), but failed because it currently has references to other internal classes (like InProcSessionStateStore). The downside of hacking using reflection is we need to set our application to ‘Full Trust’.
Oh, and if you really need the VB version, try these :
Sub RegenerateID()
Dim manager
Dim oldId As String
Dim newId As String
Dim isRedir As Boolean
Dim isAdd As Boolean
Dim ctx As HttpApplication
Dim mods As HttpModuleCollection
Dim ssm As System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule
Dim fields() As System.Reflection.FieldInfo
Dim rqIdField As System.Reflection.FieldInfo
Dim rqLockIdField As System.Reflection.FieldInfo
Dim rqStateNotFoundField As System.Reflection.FieldInfo
Dim store As SessionStateStoreProviderBase
Dim field As System.Reflection.FieldInfo
Dim lockId
manager = New System.Web.SessionState.SessionIDManager
oldId = manager.GetSessionID(Context)
newId = manager.CreateSessionID(Context)
manager.SaveSessionID(Context, newId, isRedir, isAdd)
ctx = HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance
mods = ctx.Modules
ssm = CType(mods.Get("Session"), System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule)
fields = ssm.GetType.GetFields(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic Or System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance)
store = Nothing : rqLockIdField = Nothing : rqIdField = Nothing : rqStateNotFoundField = Nothing
For Each field In fields
If (field.Name.Equals("_store")) Then store = CType(field.GetValue(ssm), SessionStateStoreProviderBase)
If (field.Name.Equals("_rqId")) Then rqIdField = field
If (field.Name.Equals("_rqLockId")) Then rqLockIdField = field
If (field.Name.Equals("_rqSessionStateNotFound")) Then rqStateNotFoundField = field
Next
lockId = rqLockIdField.GetValue(ssm)
If ((Not IsNothing(lockId)) And (Not IsNothing(oldId))) Then store.ReleaseItemExclusive(Context, oldId, lockId)
rqStateNotFoundField.SetValue(ssm, True)
rqIdField.SetValue(ssm, newId)
End Sub