Cookies question

[venerable bede]

Using the following I can create a cookie :

Dim mycookie As New HttpCookie("Userinfo")

mycookie("Name") = "Whatever"
mycookie("City") = "Whatever ..."

e.t.c.

How would I declare this if the value "mycookie" is in fact stored in a variable.

e.g
dim myvar as string
myvar = "mycookie"

dim myvar as new HttpCookie("Userinfo") will kick up a stink.

Any ideas geniuses
Cheers

[Edneeis]

You are trying to cast from a string to an HttpCookie object. myvar should be declared as a cookie.

[venerable bede]

You have lost me a bit Eednis.

When the user opens a particular detail page I query the database and return the detail record.
One of the fields in my database is called pageName.
I need to create a cookie named after the contents of this field.

e.g "page1" or "detailpage" which is held in pageName.

Thanks so far.

This .net stuff really is starting to sink in now.
I can rightfully say that apart from Crystal reports and Package and Deployment, I love .net.

[Edneeis]

A Cookie is a collection type object so it can't be stored in a string (its stored in the cookie). So if you want to create a cookie NAMED after a field then use the string as the name instead of assigning the string to the cookie. But I'm not really sure I understand what you are trying to do, maybe somehting like this:

dim myvar as string="mycookie"
 
dim myCookie as new HttpCookie(myvar)

[MikeStammer]

Crystal reports is bad ass, once you get it figured out. Check out the post I recently made about it. I outlined how to do it so it works every time. It outlines parameter passing, authentication, etc. CR works great after you understand it.