Variable Persistence in ASP.NET - or lack thereof.

Inside the class of my webform, I define a new variable, an integer, like this:

Code:

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Public Class WebForm1
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
    Protected test As integer

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Then I have a button that just assigns a value to Test.

Code:

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    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        test = 5
    End Sub

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However, when the users clicks a submit button (an empty one) and the page refreshes, test returns to 0. Why? Is there any way I can have this variable persist!?

that is what session variables and cache object are for

Use Page.ViewState or Me.ViewState which uses a StateBag object. You use it just like the VB6 Dictionary object.

Save it before leaving the page.
Page.ViewState("mypersistedvalue") = Cstr(test)

On IsPostBack
Try
test = CInt(Page.ViewState("mypersistedvalue") )
Catch
test = 0
End Try

You can persist whole arrays also.