Setting and displaying cookies

The HttpCookie and HttpCookieCollection classes allow you to access and edit cookies which have the following properties:



Domain - gets or sets the name of the domain to associate the cookie with.

Expires - gets or sets expiration date. The value is a standard system date/time.

HasKeys - tells whether the cookie has subkeys or not. This property cannot be set.

Item - a shortcut to HttpCookieValues[key].

Name - gets or sets the name of the cookie.

Path - gets or sets the cookie's virtual path.

Secure - indicates to transmit the cookie over SSL. Either "true" or "false". Default is true.

Value - gets or sets the value of a cookie.

Values - assigns multiple values for a cookie.

A cookie's value also needs to be a string. So if you are storing an integer or other datatype you will need to convert it as in: