Storing variables throughout a "session"

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I'm in startup phase of creating a Yatzee game in .NET, using Windows Forms and C#. I apologize for moron-like questions here, but I'm a web programmer.... From what I understand, there is no such thing as a global variables (as in Visual Basic 6.....bas files) in .NET. Am I right? Ok, if this is the case, how would I have to approach the situation in my game where I have to store players scores throughout a game? I suppose I can use the labels in my form, but this just seems like a pain in the butt, because then I have to go through all labels whenever I need to calculate total scores etc. It would be nice to have an array of objects (Player objects) where I store a player's data (name, score, how many choices left, and so on). Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks so much!

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The way i found to have "global" variable that I can access across multiple forms was to create a class with all of my variables and made each variable public static. then reference the class from any form using System; namespace My_Program { /// /// Summary description for globals. /// public class globals { public globals() { } public static string username; } } Then from any form just access the username like so: My_Program.globals.username = "this is the username"; -or- Using My_Program; MessageBox.Show(globals.username); HTH Duddits

Storing variables throughout a "session"

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