Preserving ASP.NET Application State Across Restarts

Question

Any good way to preserve ASP.NET Application state across restarts?

I want to be able to set some values restart the app and have them still be there. I want to primarily do this for small "throw-away" test web apps that don't even need a database.

Is there some way to do it with static members and serialization? web cache?

UPDATE:
Application should be able to update these values.
Values could be custom objects like:

public class Person    
{  
  public string FirstName { get; set; }  
  public string LastName { get; set; }      
}  

Answer 1

You need some sort of persistent data storage, whether that's a database, xml files or something else.

You might be interested in the SimpleRepository with SqlLite from SubSonic which gets pretty close to what you describe.

Answer 2

Why not just use the ASP.NET State Service:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972429.aspx

Am I missing something?

Answer 3

I believe that you can store the ASP .NET session in a SQL Server Server database. I'd imagine that would persist it across application restarts, or even shutdowns/reboots.