static class variable in COM object

[BeanDog]

I need to store a single integer value that can be accessed by any instance of a COM class running on a machine. Is there any way to do this? COM does not allow static member variables or global variables. On top of that, it seems to load a new copy of the class itself every time someone tries to connect to the DLL/EXE, so a global isn't really global anyway. Any ideas?



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[programsecrets]

How about popping it into a database somewhere (especially if you've already got connection functionality in the object)?

At least that would be better than a flat file since it would help with concurrency issues.