.NET - Click-Once / Smart Client Applications - Browser Cookie Equivalent?

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Is there an equivalent to browser cookies for Smart Client / Click Once application development on .NET 3.5? Some place I can store cookies on the user's machine rather than the server.

Or to put it another way - what file location can you write to from a sandboxed Click-Once app that won't violate good security practices. I don't want to take the app out of the sandbox and run with elevated privileges if I don't have to.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '09 at 20:16

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Isolated storage. It's like the file system APIs, but more secure and maybe a bit more cumbersome to work with.

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MatthewMartin

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 03 '09 at 20:16

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Have a look at isolated storage. Here's a specific blog post for ClickOnce apps.

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RichardOD

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 03 '09 at 20:16

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You could use Isolated Storage.

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Austin Salonen

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 03 '09 at 20:16

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Better than cookies, you can use the Isolated Storage API to store files on the client machine.

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Michael Brown

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 03 '09 at 20:17

I'm not sure what you are asking here. Are you trying to store data? You can do that in Isolated Storage, although I find myself saving in the System.Environment.SpecialFolder.AppData a lot.

Isolated Storage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3ak841sy(VS.80).aspx

.NET - Click-Once / Smart Client Applications - Browser Cookie Equivalent?

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