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We're developing a .NET 3.5 Windows Forms app, using LINQ to SQL and MVP. We have a DataRepository class for retrieving data: public class DbUserRepository : IUserRepository { private IList<UserName> _users; public IList<UserName> GetUserNames() { if (_users == null) { // retrieve _users from DB } return _users; } In order to cache the list of users across all instances of the DBUserRepository, we were going to use the Enterprise Library's Caching Application Block. But it occured to me, couldn't I just make _users a static member? For some reason that seems like an "old school" way, but it works. Are there any downsides to doing this? Is this considered bad design? private static IList<UserName> _users; Thanks
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