>>Well, by 'global application variable' don't you mean you want to persist a value that is application wide (all session) and is always available?
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>>Other than that, have you tried to add properties to the httpapplication in global.asax ?
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>The simplest way so far seems to be the one suggested in the other message. We use Web.config file.

Take a look at Paul Seriff's article in Code magazine about a web config class. It nicly extends the app config stuff built into .Net giving you caching and strongly typed config items.

It is in the issue with the "Hand" on the cover... Oct/Sep 2002 I think it is.

BOb