Shared (Static) variabled - how shared are they?

[Administrator]

Let's say at the top of my web page code behind (asp.net 2) I have:

Private Shared MyDataSet as DataSet

I set it as shared so it's available across postbacks, etc. However, is this variable unique to my session or is it shared among all users?

 

[JohnH]

It's shared for all sessions, works same as Application state object.

 

[Administrator]

So is there a way to maintain session uniqueness without having to explicitly use a Session object?

 

[JohnH]

File or DB, don't think there are other memory locations for session.