Hi

I was under the mistaken impression that Application variables could be
shared by websites running under the same IIS process. Looking at the
documentation this isn't true.

So what is the best way to share services/pages/code between IIS6 and a
multitude of websites under a web farm? The only thing I could think of
is that XML web services could help here, but is that it?

I have dabbled a little with SQL Server and saving session state, but
I'd rather avoid having the session's conflict with each other
(that's why I mistakenly thought the application variable could be
useful in this instance, it was separate to the session state), and
there must be a payload with using a database rather than memory.

Can anybody give me any pointers on what ASP.NET technologies I should
be looking at when coding/designing web farms? What really interests me
is websites being able to access one common dll and be able to exchange
variables with each other. I could have a master website where
code/variable could be utilized in this instance.

Many Thanks!

Alex