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I believe you are both looking too deeply into this. There is a much simpler way to achieve a 'session' effect using the System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.CallContext. As a matter of fact, Session and HttpContext use this very class for the underlying storage. It is thread safe and can even be used across app domains. Using this method, you may place whatever you want in there...hash table (to emulate session) or whatever else you require.

Kevin,
Thanks for the post. I should have known that there was an existing API to accomplish something like this.

-Bill

using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace SAAP.WizardPanels
{
public sealed class WizardState
{
private static WizardState _wizardState = null;
private Hashtable _cache;
private Hashtable _syncCache;

private WizardState()
{
_cache = new Hashtable();
_syncCache = Hashtable.Synchronized( _cache );
}

public Hashtable Values
{
get { return _syncCache; }
}

public static WizardState Cache
{
get
{
// Support multithreaded applications through
// "Double checked locking" pattern which avoids
// locking every time the method is invoked
if( _wizardState == null )
{
// Only one thread can obtain a mutex
using( System.Threading.Mutex mutex = new System.Threading.Mutex() )
{
mutex.WaitOne();

if( _wizardState == null )
_wizardState = new WizardState();

mutex.Close();
}
}
return _wizardState;
}
}
}
}