Question

I know this is a simple concept, but I need some help. I’m creating a winforms app, in c#, and I’m trying to organize my code. The first screen is a log in, and once the user is authenticated I return the users details. How/where should I store these details so that I don’t have to retrieve them again each time I want to use them?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Along the lines of what the others have said about the global static class, but with some sample code :

public class UserInfo
{
    private int userID;

    public int UserID
    {
        get { return userID; }
    }

    private string userName;

    public string UserName
    {
        get { return userName; }
    }

    public UserInfo(int userID, string userName)
    {
        this.userID = userID;
        this.userName = userName;
    }
}

public static class GlobalInfo
{
    private static UserInfo currentUser;

    public static UserInfo CurrentUser
    {
        get { return currentUser; }
        set { currentUser = value; }
    }
}

So, after the user has logged in, save the logged in info :

GlobalInfo.CurrentUser = new UserInfo(123, "Bob Jones");

When you need to fetch info :

UserInfo userInfo = GlobalInfo.CurrentUser;