Very Basic Static Method Question - SlideShowExtender

I'm working with the SlideShowExtender to show slides from a database. I have everything working as planned, except for a major oversight which I can't figure out how to get around properly. Internally I am housing a static SlideList object which contains all the slides returned from my DAL. Inside my

static AjaxControlTookit.Slide[] GetSlides() method I am copying the SlideList interal objects into the Slide[] object and then returning it. Now for my problem, naturally because my SlideList is static, there is only one copy across each page. When more than one user is on the website at the same time, obviously they are touching the same slideshow data which is causing a lot of problems. What is the correct way to handle this solution? Was I supposed to place the GetSlides() method in a WebService.asmx webservice, or is it ok to keep them as PageMethods and then correctly keep track of the Slides on a per page basis?

I would rather keep the GetSlides() method as a static PageMethod so I don't have to completely refactor the entire project, however I am not sure how I would correctly go about having Slides and then accessing them within my static methods. I realize this is a very elementary problem, and I feel awfully silly for not knowing the answer!

THanks!

Hi,

Your question is how to return different slides upon different requests, isn't it?

Well, you may pass a parameter (contextKey) into the GetSlides method, and use it to filter some slides.

For example, let's say you plan to filter the slides according to the userName of the one is browsing the page, you assign current user name in Page_Load.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.slideshowextend1.ContextKey = currentUserName;
}

[System.Web.Services.WebMethod]
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptMethod]
public static AjaxControlToolkit.Slide[] GetSlides(string contextKey)
{ // return a slide array according to contextKey
}

Hope this helps.