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

in cookie you can store a value of type string. you can store your object into session,viewstate or in cache. but still want to store in cookies, just use system.web.script.javascriptserialization class and convert the whole object in json string and then store that on your cookie.