Using Cookies for Saving Information

Cookies are pieces of information that user’s browser can hold and that can have a max size of 4 Kbytes. Each time the browser opens your web application, it recalls all cookies provided by the website. The following are examples of writing and reading cookies:

Notice that the Expires property of type Date is required to specify that the cookie information will no longer be valid after that date, whereas the Value property is of type String so that you can store information without conversions.