Create Global ASP.NET Function?

I have all of my "global" stuff in a single class either called cProgram or cApp. Starts off with all of the global properties, and then my common methods.

public class cApp
{

             private readonly static string _Env = 
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GenMgrEnv"]) ? 
    System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GenMgrEnv"] : "Prod";


     public static string Env
    {
        get
        { return _Env; }
    }


    public static int version
    {
        get { return 3; }
    }


    public static string CurrentUser()
    {
        return (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["UID"] != null ? System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["UID"].Value : "");

    }

    public static Guid UserId
    {
        get
        {
            if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["UserId"] == null)
            {
                loadUserIdentity();
            }
            return new Guid(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["UserId"].ToString());
        }

    }



    public static Control FindControlRecursively(String id, Control parent)
    {
        if (parent == null)
            return null;

        foreach (Control control in parent.Controls)
        {
            if (control.ID == id)
                return control;

            Control child = FindControlRecursively(id, control);

            if (child != null)
                return child;
        }
        return null;
    }
}

You could...

• define your GetUserInfo() method in helper/utility class and call it as needed from your pages, or
• create base page class containing your GetUserInfo() method, and have your aspx pages inherit from it.

Open up default.aspx and take a look at the class name for that page (it'll probably be _Default). Make sure GetUserInfo() is a public static method and you can then call it from mypage2.aspx like:

_Default.GetUserInfo();

Of course the above approach would get messy very quickly. A vastly better approach would be to add a class file to your project and move the GetUserInfo() method into that file. Implementing something like:

public static class Utilities
{
    public static string GetUserInfo()
    { ... }
}

Would allow you to get the call the method on any page with:

Utilities.GetUserInfo();

You can also create a static class in which you can place functions which can be called from any place.

static class MyClass {
   void MyFunction() {
   }
}

MyClass.MyFunction();

Or in VB:

Module MyModule
    Public Function MyFunction() 

    End Function
End Module

MyModule.MyFunction()