Hi,

I want to confirm that a VB global variable, like userID, can be safely used in a VWG application.

I know that its not 'best practice' to use global variables, but certain items in my app are read once and referenced a lot, and right now, it is too time critical to change the app.

So if 2 users browse to the same VWG app, will the global variables be separate for each user.

I am just being paranoid - it all seems to work OK...

Thanks,

Geoff

Thanks, Palli,

(I had read the shorter item in the VWG help - but I wasn't sure - hence the question).

So as I understand it now, my global constants are OK because they don't change, but anything that is specific to a user, that needs to be widely used by the app *must* be converted to a VWGContext.Current("somevar") type/format.

Final confirmation will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Geoff

Hello Geoff,

Yes you are right. You should be aware though that if the session for a specific user dies, the undelying VWG Context object/s die with it. Hence whatever you stored in that storage scope would be gone - reset.

Global / Static variables stay alive as long as the application is alive, like objects and variables stored in the Application scope.

Please reply if you require any further assistance.

Regards,

Ori Cohen
Manager of support, the Visual WebGui team