Update: Follow Up Posts

• Use wrappers to access your cookies, sessions, …
• Testable and reusable cookie access with ASP.Net MVC RC

The short explanation, if you don’t like to read the entire story

If you use code like if (Response.Cookies["mycookie"] != null) { … }, ASP.Net automatically generates a new cookie with the name “mycookie” in the background and overwrites your old cookie! Always use the Request.Cookies-Collection to read cookies!

I don’t know why, but due to some reasons, you stumbled upon this page! I’m happy to announce, that this page is going to be my attempt to make the world a better place for you – at least if you are a Microsoft .Net developer and if you – like me – love to learn new things!

“WTF? Yet another blog about programming?”

If that’s what you are thinking right now, then my answer is “Maybe! But hopefully not!”. I will give my best to provide you with high quality information and if it saves you some hours then it served its purpose!

What can you expect from this blog?

I’m a web developer and software architect. The things I like working with are constantly changing, as I really like to dive into new technologies! Currently I’m learning a lot about ASP.Net MVC and all the ALT.Net topics, so these will be the first topics I’m going to write about.