So what i'm trying to understand is the whole global.asax events. I doing a simple counter that records website visits. I am using MSSQL.

Basicly i have two ints. totalNumberOfUsers - The total visist from begining. currentNumberOfUsers - Total of users viewing the site at the moment.

So the way i understand global.asax events is that every time someone comes to the site "Session_Start" is fired once. So once per user. "Application_Start" is fired only once the first time someone comes to the site.

Going with this i have my global.asax file here.

<script runat="server">

    string connectionstring = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString1"].ConnectionString;

    void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) 
    {
        // Code that runs on application startup

        Application.Lock();
        Application["currentNumberOfUsers"] = 0;
        Application.UnLock();

        string sql = "Select c_hit from v_counter where (id=1)";
        SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(connectionstring);
        SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, connect);

        cmd.Connection.Open();

        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

        SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

        while (reader.Read())
        {
            Application.Lock();
            Application["totalNumberOfUsers"] =  reader.GetInt32(0);
            Application.UnLock();
        }

        reader.Close();
        cmd.Connection.Close();

    }

    void Application_End(object sender, EventArgs e) 
    {
        //  Code that runs on application shutdown

    }

    void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e) 
    { 
        // Code that runs when an unhandled error occurs

    }

    void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) 
    {
        // Code that runs when a new session is started

        Application.Lock();
        Application["totalNumberOfUsers"] = (int)Application["totalNumberOfUsers"] + 1;
        Application["currentNumberOfUsers"] = (int)Application["currentNumberOfUsers"] + 1;
        Application.UnLock();

        string sql = "UPDATE v_counter SET c_hit = @hit WHERE c_type = 'totalNumberOfUsers'";

        SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(connectionstring);
        SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, connect);

        SqlParameter hit = new SqlParameter("@hit", SqlDbType.Int);
        hit.Value = Application["totalNumberOfUsers"];
        cmd.Parameters.Add(hit);

        cmd.Connection.Open();
        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
        cmd.Connection.Close();

    }

    void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e) 
    {
        // Code that runs when a session ends. 
        // Note: The Session_End event is raised only when the sessionstate mode
        // is set to InProc in the Web.config file. If session mode is set to StateServer 
        // or SQLServer, the event is not raised.

        Application.Lock();
        Application["currentNumberOfUsers"] = (int)Application["currentNumberOfUsers"] - 1;
        Application.UnLock();
    }




</script>

In the page_load i have this

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    l_current.Text = Application["currentNumberOfUsers"].ToString();
    l_total.Text = Application["totalNumberOfUsers"].ToString();
}

So if i understand this right, every time someone comes to the site both the currentNumberOfUsers and totalNumberOfUsers are incremented with 1. But when the session is over the currentNumberOfUsers is decremented with 1.

If i go to the site with 3 types of browsers with the same computer i should have 3 in hits on both counters. Doing this again after hours i should have 3 in current and 6 in total, right ?

The way its working right now is the current goes up to 2 and the total is incremented on every postback on IE and Chrome but not on firefox.

And one last thing, is this the same thing ?

Application["value"] = 0;
value = Application["value"]

//OR

Application.Set("Value", 0);
Value = Application.Get("Value");