Enable C# to clear cookies in IE7

Question

How do I modify IE7 to allow my application to clear the cookies?

WatiN has a clearcookies() method that don't work because of IE's security.

What do you mean it doesn't work because of IE's security? It works just fine; I use it every day. — Ian P, Jun 18 '10 at 18:48
Ian P, do you allow your application to delete the cookies? Or do you mean manually deleting them? — James Jeffery, Jun 18 '10 at 18:55
Duplicate - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/825144/how-to-clear-msie-wininet-cache-programatically — Chad, Jun 18 '10 at 22:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '10 at 19:52

I think the easiest way to do this would be through a command-line call. Something like:

using System.Diagnostics;
// ...
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2");

Warning, untested. Also, if you're on Vista or newer, you might run into permissions grief.

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