Question

I have a site where provide pseudo subdomain based sites. Each subdomain has a set of settings (ie. String name, string css, string title) that I need to access on all pages. What would be the best way of storing them for easy access?

I can’t use webconfig because different subdomains have their own settings collection so I store settings on sql server. I thought of caching all settings with different cache name but I am worried about the memory hog. Regardless using cache I understand I need to write some sort of class where I expose each setting as property.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Why don’t you subclass the Page or MasterPage to then expose your properties?

In a C# file…

class MyPage : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    string PropertyName { get; set; }
}

In the all the ASPX files…

<%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="MyNamespace.MyPage" %>