Question

I want to load my MVC 3 application settings into memory for better performance.

So far I can assign them in the global.asa.cs but I cannot access the variables in any controller. Any idea why?

Global.asa.cs Code

public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
    public static string DBUserName = Properties.Settings.Default.DBUserName;
    public static string DBPassword = Properties.Settings.Default.DBPassword;

HomeController code:

public class HomeController : Controller
    {


        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            ViewBag.Message = "Modify this template to jump-start your ASP.NET MVC application.";
            _Authenticate(DBUserName , DBPassword );

Answer 1

You need to access them by specifying the class name in which they are declared:

_Authenticate(MvcApplication.DBUserName, MvcApplication.DBPassword);

MvcApplication is the name of the class in this the two fields are declared.

For this to work you need to declare the 2 fields as static:

public static string DBUserName = Properties.Settings.Default.DBUserName;
public static string DBPassword = Properties.Settings.Default.DBPassword;