Sometimes it is required to share some variables, methods or structures of code that are common throughout your web application. You need to place these variables from where they have global accessibility to all the other files or pages within your app.   Author: Haroon Rasheed Malik   Code: ASP.NET v1.0 & VB

ASP.NET has a match for the Classic ASP global.asa file and that is (following with .aspx tradition - Global.asax. If you remember what global.asa does, you pretty much have sorted what global.asax does.   Author: Philip Quinn   Code: ASP.NET v1.0

The article discusses proper naming of event handlers within global.asax and helps answer such questions as, "Which name is correct: Session_Start or Session_OnStart?"   Author: Milan Negovan   Code: ASP.NET v2.0 & C#

ASP.NET uses a special file, called global.asax, to establish any global objects that your Web application uses. The .asax extension denotes an application file rather than .aspx for a page file.   Author: Phil Syme   Code: ASP.NET v1.0 & C#