how do I do cookies?

[Neil]

Hi,

Although an experienced ASP programmer, I can't work out how to do cookies
in ASP.NET

I need (for instance) to set a cookie for a UserID once a client has logged
on to my site, so that other pages can check this as and when required.

I imagine that there are other ways of doing this, but I would still like to
be able to use cookies as well.

Any advice appreciated - cheers!

NEIL

[Mark Rae]

"Neil" <ne**@NOSPAMPLEASE.euwrote in message
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Although an experienced ASP programmer, I can't work out how to do cookies
in ASP.NET

I need (for instance) to set a cookie for a UserID once a client has
logged on to my site, so that other pages can check this as and when
required.

I imagine that there are other ways of doing this, but I would still like
to be able to use cookies as well.

Any advice appreciated - cheers!

1) Launch your internet browser (e.g. IE, FireFox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla
etc)

2) Navigate to http://www.google.com

3) Enter the text below in the box:

"ASP.NET" cookies

4) Hit the button

[Eliyahu Goldin]

On the client side there is no any difference between the platforms.

On the server side you can access the client's cookies variable as
Request.Cookies.

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Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer & Consultant
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net
"Neil" <ne**@NOSPAMPLEASE.euwrote in message
news:er*******************@news.demon.co.uk...

Hi,

Although an experienced ASP programmer, I can't work out how to do cookies
in ASP.NET

I need (for instance) to set a cookie for a UserID once a client has
logged on to my site, so that other pages can check this as and when
required.

I imagine that there are other ways of doing this, but I would still like
to be able to use cookies as well.

Any advice appreciated - cheers!

NEIL

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Easy way:

Response.Cookies["userId"]=userId;
Response.Cookies["userId"].Expires=DateTime.Now(AddDays(365));

int userId=(int)Request.Cookies["userId"];

Does that help?
Peter

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"Neil" wrote:

Hi,

Although an experienced ASP programmer, I can't work out how to do cookies
in ASP.NET

I need (for instance) to set a cookie for a UserID once a client has logged
on to my site, so that other pages can check this as and when required.

I imagine that there are other ways of doing this, but I would still like to
be able to use cookies as well.

Any advice appreciated - cheers!

NEIL