Question

I need to change a static property on an object in our web application. The property has a default value that is hard-coded into the object. If I change the static property in my Application_Start does that change stick:

A) Forever (well, until the app is recycled)

B) Until the object is GC'd then re-inialised by the next accessor

C) Depends

Note that the property I'd be setting is just a String

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Solution

The scope of a static variable is its AppDomain. So no, it won't get garbage collected - but if the AppDomain is recycled (which can happen a fair amount in ASP.NET) then you'll end up with a "new" static variable, effectively.

OTHER TIPS

In my experience with our web apps here, the answer is A. As far as I know, a static class will never be GCed, it lives on for the life of the process (in this case, the ASP.NET worker process)

Go for A) App Instance Variable

For context storage, refer to httpContext.

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