Setting Session State

Below I've written a simple code I though would set/update a state session value called 'language'. I've included a label to verify the update but if I fire any of these routines it keeps on rendering "true" . Have I done something wrong here?

thanks,

Shanon

Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

Dim Language as string ="NL"

Session("Lang") = language

label1.text = "You have set session to Dutch"

label2.text = (language = Session("Lang"))

End Sub

Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

Dim Language as String = "EN"

Session("Lang") = language

label1.text = "You have set session to English"

label2.text = (language = Session("Lang"))

End SubWhen you add something to the Session, it gets boxed as an object and then stored. When you try to retrieve it, it comes back as an object. You have to unbox it by casting it to the appropriate type. I'm not too familiar with VB.NET, but in C# it'd look like this:

string language = "EN";
Session["Lang"] = language;
label1.Text = Session["Lang"].ToString(); //using a method to do the conversion
label2.Text = (string)Session["Lang"]; //a straight cast

I now get a true and false value returned but each time i run this header it will only fire the Else "false" statement. Why isn't it picking up on the "true" statement when its clearly set to true?

Public Sub Page_Load(Sender As Object, E As EventArgs)
 Dim dsMenu As New DataSet()
 Dim language as string
 language = session("lang")
 if language = "true" then
 dsMenu.ReadXml(server.MapPath("menu-nl.xml"))
 Else language = "false"
 dsMenu.ReadXml(server.MapPath("menu-uk.xml"))
 End IF
 Menubar.DataSource = dsMenu
 Menubar.DataBind()
End Sub