Chris,
You are correct. The reason I wanted to use a static property was because it is updated from within a static method that is running in it's own separate thread and in order to ensure thread safety. I choose to make it static.

Einar

>Doesn't the use of the "static" keyword retain the value of _CumulativeDataRead as an SBox class member, separate from creation and destruction of the oSBox object?
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>>Hi there I just noticed a odd behaviour from my class. My class is a class that knows how to connect to a device using the ethernet, send some information to the device, retreive a response from the device and then close the connection to the device. Until now I thought things were going smoothly, but today I wanted to improve the speed of the connect,send,receive, disconnect process.
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>>In a button click I create my object
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>>ALS.Device.SBox oSBox = new ALS.Device.SBox();
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>>One of the properties of my class is:
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>>private static System.Int32 _CumulativeDataRead = 0;
>>public System.Int32 CumulativeDataRead
>>{
>> get{ return SBox._CumulativeDataRead;}
>>}
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>>Now the first time I click the button every thing is fine (CumulativeDataRead = 0), but the next time I click the button the value returned by CumulativeDataRead is equal to the number of bytes I received with the last transmission (CumulativeDataRead=281). The object oSBox is scoped to the button click method so you think it would be disposed after the button click method is completed. What I ended up doing, for the time beeing, is to add
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>>SBox._CumulativeDataRead = 0
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>>in the constructor of the class to ensure that the value is reset upon creation of the object oSBox and this works.
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>>So my question is: Why does .NET "reuse" my old object the 2nd time I click the button?
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>>Please let me know your throughts on this issue and let me know if you need further information from me.
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>>Thanks,
>>Einar