Some basic session state questions

Hi,

My understanding is that session info must be stored using
Session["var"], which means text data. What I'd like to be able to do,
is keep an object alive throughout a user's session, without having to
serialize my data into text, save it as Session["var"], and restore it
using Session["var"] every time the user moves to a different page.

Is there no way to have a session *object* stay in memory and preserve
variable state without serialize/deserialize/Session[] ?

Also, depending on what a user is doing, I'd like to temporarily store
his/her selections in SQL, for the duration of the session, then wipe
out that temporary data when the session expires. Is there a way I can
use the .net framework to do that? By notifying me or a SQL stored
procedure to clean out that data? I could use a scheduled stored proc
to wipe out old temp data, I just wondered if there's anything in
ASP.NET that I could tap into.

Thanks in advance

.

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