Cookie confusion

[ronmoles]

Hello all...

I am working through an asp.net 2.0 book, and have a question about cookies. The book makes it appear as though it is possible to have multiple cookies, but all of my data is appearing in the same .txt file. In my page_load() function, I have this code snippet.

// define the cookie 
Response.Cookies["lastVisit"].Value = DateTime.Now.ToString();
Response.Cookies["lastVisit"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);

Response.Cookies["userName"].Value = "John Smith";
Response.Cookies["userName"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);

Response.Cookies["favoriteColor"].Value = "blue";
Response.Cookies["favoriteColor"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);

The book leads me to believe that this would cause three separate cookies to be created, but I am getting one .txt file created, which if I look at it, has these three values stored in it. The book indicates that if you want to have multiple values stored in the same cookie, your code would look more like this:

Response.Cookies["userData"]["lastVisit"].Value = DateTime.Now.ToString();
Response.Cookies["userData"]["userName"].Value = "John Smith";
Response.Cookies["userData"]["favoriteColor"].Value = "blue";
Response.Cookies["userData"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);

I haven't even tried the second code, because I'm confused as to why I am only getting one .txt file (which I am assuming is my cookie) created.

Any insight? Thanks in advance.

TOOLS: VS 2005
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