Two column array

[David C]

We have an asp.net 3.5fw application that needs to hold 5 2-column arrays
somewhere (cookie?) that we can retrieve at the opening of one aspx web
page. The array will hold a url location (column 1) and some text (column
2) that we can update in any page (probably from master page code-behind).
Can someone point me to an example of this concept or a sample snippet? It
would be similar to what is done in our "favorites" bar. Thanks.

David

 

[Nick Gilbert]

We have an asp.net 3.5fw application that needs to hold 5 2-column arrays
somewhere (cookie?) that we can retrieve at the opening of one aspx web
page. The array will hold a url location (column 1) and some text (column
2) that we can update in any page (probably from master page code-behind).
Can someone point me to an example of this concept or a sample snippet? It
would be similar to what is done in our "favorites" bar. Thanks.

Don't attempt to put important structured data in a cookie. Cookies are
useful for storing usernames, IDs and that's about it. Put it in the
Session or a database.

Overall, your solution just sounds rather weird! What actually are you
trying to do? There might be a better way to solve the problem.

Nick

 

[David C]

Unless you have an absolute necessity to use arrays, forget about them. v2
of the Framework introduced generics which are much more powerful.

I would also strongly suggest that cookies should be considered only as an
absolute last resort.

Sounds like all you need to store a Dictionary<string, string> generic in
Session.

Thanks for your ideas. I am trying to store recently visited pages for an
internal intranet application. I only want to store the main pages so that
a person can go back to that page easily without doing another search. The
application keeps track of clients and workers so I want to store the page
link (with querystring) and the name of the client or worker. Then, when on
the main (home) page I can display them in a pop-up DIV for selection.

David