How to store an object in a cookie?

Question

While this is possible in C#: (User is a L2S class in this instance)

User user = // function to get user
Session[\"User\"] = user;

why this

Answer 1

Try something like this?

StringWriter outStream = new StringWriter();
XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List>));
s.Serialize(outStream, myObj);
cookie.Value = outStream.ToString();