>A continuation of the my user ID question. I am thinking about saving the UserID to a session variable if there is a valid user id and the session variable is empty. This would minimize my database hits. The web page I am working on has a master page with the header and login controls setup. Seems to me that if I always include that master page in my web pages then that would be the best place to put this code to make sure it runs on every hit. Is there a better place?
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You could do it that way. Or just write the session variable from the log-in page. It depends on how likely it will be that the information will be needed.
Also, if you need various bits of information about the user then you could put them in a custom class and store that in the session variable - only having the Id means you'd probably have to go back to the DB again anyway.