Project wide string variable

Question

Essentially on form load I want a basic VB input box to prompt the user for input in the form of a string (a servername, like MYSERVER01). As of now I am accomplishing like:

        //Get server name from user
        string serverName = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Enter the name of the server hosting the share (without '\\\\')", "File copy from Server", "", -1, -1);
        string remotePath = @"\\" + serverName + @"\" + "Share";

However, I need remotePath to be available throughout the the entire project, my question is, where I define it, bearing in mind I only want the messagebox to prompt the user once for the servername.

You want a different way to solve this. Either change the working directory and access files by relative path, or use a class that abstracts that, which can use the path in an instance variable. — CodeCaster, Sep 16 '13 at 19:14

devavx · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-16T19:53:46.553

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You can do it in this way;

public static class SomeClass
{
    //Get server name from user
    string serverName = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Enter the name of the server hosting the share (without '\\\\')", "File copy from Server", "", -1, -1);
    private static string remotePath = @"\\" + serverName + @"\" + "Share";

    public static string RemotePath
    {
        get
        {
            return remotePath;
        }

        set
        {
            remotePath = value;
        }
    }
}

This way you can access remotePath throughout the application.To access remotePath from other classes use SomeClass.RemotePath,it's a get and set property so you can change it later on if you need.

edited Sep 16 '13 at 19:53

answered Sep 16 '13 at 19:25

devavx

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Why not make this a static class and drop the constructor? – Scott Chamberlain Sep 16 '13 at 19:45
@ScottChamberlain Thanks for the suggestion.Is it fine now ? – devavx Sep 16 '13 at 19:48
Yea, but where is `serverName` coming from? – Scott Chamberlain Sep 16 '13 at 19:50
A static class that _pops up an inputbox_ when it is first accessed? Don't do this, even if it would compile. – CodeCaster Sep 17 '13 at 11:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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It seems like you are talking about program settings. The standard place to store them is .settings file. Storing settings is as easy as

Settings.Default["ServerName"] = "MYSERVER01";

Take a look at this answer for more details https://stackoverflow.com/a/453230/731793. Also read the official documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0zszyc6e.aspx

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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answered Sep 16 '13 at 19:42

Pavel Murygin

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Project wide string variable

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