Session in WPF?

Question

In ASP.NET, I can do Session[\"something\"] = something;, and then I can retrieve in another page the value of the session. Is there a Session in WPF that would

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, you just need some kind of global storage for certain values in your program.

You can create a static class with public static properties for the various values that you need to store and be able to globally access inside your application. Something like:

public static class Global
{
    private string s_sSomeProperty;

    static Globals ()
    {
        s_sSomeProperty = ...;
        ...
    }

    public static string SomeProperty
    {
        get
        {
            return ( s_sSomeProperty );
        }
        set
        {
            s_sSomeProperty = value;
        }
    }

    ...
}

This way you can just write Global.SomeProperty anywhere in your code where the Global class is available.

Of course, you'd need validation and - if your application is multithreaded - proper locking to make sure your global (shared) data is protected across threads.

This solution is better than using something like session because your properties will be strongly typed and there's no string-based lookup for the property value.