Application wide Constant on Application Load in ASP.NET C#

Question

I wish to read a yaml file, deserialize it and store it as a constant till tne next time the website is rebuilt again in ASP.NET C#.

What would be the way to do it in ASP.NET C#?

Answer 1

Application start in Global.asax.

Read in the file and store as a static variable. Use a lock to avoid multithreading issues when modifying that variable (ie the initial load).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178473%28v=vs.100%29

Answer 2

You could read in the file in and generate code for a class to hold data as a constant. Write a script to compile the class to a dll. Then you need a reference and using statement in whatever program is using this configuration. You would need to run the scripts each time the site was built.