Access "Application" object in ASP.Net MVC to store application wide variables

How do I store a variable or object application 开发者_运维问答wide in ASP.net MVC?

In regular ASP, you had the Application object and in ASP.net too apparently.

I'm using ASP.net MVC 2.

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In a controller you should be able to do this:

this.HttpContext.Application["foo"] = "bar";