Global Classes

[Denster]

Need to store the details of a user when they login. The old way of doing this would be to create session variables but I believe this is now frowned upon. Ideally creating a global class and somehow implementing this in the global.asax file would be the answer but not sure if this can be done in asp and vb.net.

 

[jbenson001]

but I believe this is now frowned upon

Why do you say that? Session variables are fine to use if you use them correctly, same as cache.

 

[Denster]

Perhaps frowned upon was the wrong phrase to use, but a global class containing all the information I need would be a better solution.

 

[Denster]

Think its sorted!. If you declare a class as Public Shared it seems to be accessible for that session.
Still doing a few tests on it but at the moment the results are positive.

 

[tperri]

Why don't you make a User class, and create a new instance of that class, set up it's properties, and store that user object in the session?