Static variables on IIS 5

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Mark Stevens

I have an ASP.NET (.NET 2) application with a something similar to the
following:

public static class A
{
protected static string str;
// Other methods...
}

Public Class B : A
{
// Public methods using str...
}

My query concerns the singleton nature of str. So if my site has two
users logged does each see their own version of the singleton class or
a shared one?

I would expect that the class is singleton to the user but I cannot
find anything which confirms this.

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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Mark Stevens (mark at thepcsite fullstop co fullstop uk)
 
Well, let's qualify that a bit. True singletons are exceedingly difficult to
create in a web environment so while it may be shared across all users,
there may be more than one copy of str - one for each worker process - in a
web farm.

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Eliyahu Goldin said:
It will be shared across all users. "Static" means application scope, not
session scope.

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Mark Stevens said:
I have an ASP.NET (.NET 2) application with a something similar to the
following:

public static class A
{
protected static string str;
// Other methods...
}

Public Class B : A
{
// Public methods using str...
}

My query concerns the singleton nature of str. So if my site has two
users logged does each see their own version of the singleton class or
a shared one?

I would expect that the class is singleton to the user but I cannot
find anything which confirms this.

Thanks in advance,
Mark
--
|\ _,,,---,,_ A picture used to be worth a
ZZZzzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;, thousand words - then along
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' came television!
'---''(_/--' `-'\_)

Mark Stevens (mark at thepcsite fullstop co fullstop uk)
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