Session support in self-hosted WCF Data Service

Question

I created a self-hosted WCF data service and as you can see here, I discovered that it does not support the ASP.Net context (HttpContext.Current is null).

Am I correct if I suppose that session handling is also not available in a self-hosted data service?

Answer 1

Session handling is not available in self-hosted WCF Data Services as it utilizies the HttpContext class which relies on ASP.Net context and it is always null in Data Services. So you have to implement a custom solution to imitate session handling in WCF Data Services.