Making Sessions in MVC 6 Controller(with views, using Entity Framework) - asp.net-mvc

Question

I'm attempting to create a session in my UserAccountsController
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Rendering;
using Microsoft.Data.Entity;
using POPPELWebsite.Models;
namespace POPPELWebsite.Controllers
{
public class UserAccountController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
public ActionResult Register()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Register(UserAccount account)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
using (OurDbContext db = new OurDbContext())
{
db.userAccount.Add(account);
db.SaveChanges();
}
ModelState.Clear();
ViewBag.Message = account.FirstName + " " + account.LastName + " successfully registered.";
}
return View();
}
//Login
public ActionResult Login()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Login(UserAccount user)
{
using (OurDbContext db = new OurDbContext())
{
var usr = db.userAccount.Single(u => u.Email == user.Email && u.Password == user.Password);
if (usr != null)
{
Session["UserID"] = usr.UserID.ToString;
}
}
}
}
}
I get an error saying
the name Session does not exist in the current context.
I need to do this part to complete a registration and login tutorial for mvc

Answer 1

The Session property does not exist in the Controller class in MVC 6, instead use HttpContext.Session to access the session property.
Ex:
// get values
string strValue = HttpContext.Session.GetString("StringKey");
int intValue = HttpContext.Session.GetInt32("IntKey");
byte[] byteArrayValue = HttpContext.Session.Get("ByteArrayKey");
// set values
HttpContext.Session.Set("ByteArrayKey", byteArrayValue);
HttpContext.Session.SetInt32("IntKey", intValue);
HttpContext.Session.SetString("StringKey", strValue);

Answer 2

Try this.
public ActionResult Login(User users)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
using (DataContext db = new DataContext())
{
var obj = db.Users.Where(u => u.Username.Equals(users.Username) && u.Password.Equals(users.Password)).FirstOrDefault();
if(obj !=null)
{
System.Web.HttpContext context = System.Web.HttpContext.Current;
context.Session["UserId"] = obj.UserId.ToString();
context.Session["Username"] = obj.Username.ToString();
return RedirectToAction("Dashboard");
}
}
}
return View(users);
}