How do I access properties from global.asax in some other page's code behind

Question

Imagine I have a property defined in global.asax.

public List<string> Roles
{
    get
    {
        ...
    }
    set
    {
        ...
    }
}

I want to use the value in another page. how to I refer to it?

Answer 1

You can access the class like this:

((Global)this.Context.ApplicationInstance).Roles

Answer 2

It looks to me like that only depends on the session - so why not make it a pair of static methods which take the session as a parameter? Then you can pass in the value of the "Session" property from the page. (Anything which does have access to the HttpApplication can just reference its Session property, of course.)