Retaining a comboBox within a grid

Question

I have a comboBox within a grid. Basically to get it I have to use findcontrol.

I am thinking of another option however. Within the init method I was planning on getting the value and storing it to a private static field:

private static RadComboBox theComboBox

Can someone please tell me if this is not good practice. ie. Is it unwise to be storing a relatively complex object like this in a static field?

Answer 1

I wouldn't recommend it. See this thread for answer why. If you really want to do this, I'd use a session instead.