Getting a cookie from a web project into a WinForm

Question

Hi there,

 

I have an application which i have created.  The application is a Windows based application mainly written in C# but has some different projects within it.   I have a Form project and a web project

 

Within the web project i have created an ASP.net page which saves data typed into an input box into a cookie, i can then retrieve this data by loading it back out of the cookie as shown below:

HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("Name");
cookie.Value = TextBox1.Text.ToString();
cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(10);
Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);

TextBox1.Text = Request.Cookies["Name"].Value;

 

So my question is, in a winform created in C# how can i get hold of the cookie information?   I have seen some examples of ways to do this but they are messy and are very browser dependent, like the one shown below:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(args[0]);
request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
response.Cookies = request.CookieContainer.GetCookies(request.RequestUri);

foreach (Cookie cook in response.Cookies)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Cookie:{0} = {1}", cook.Name, cook.Value);
}

Some have also said:

Properties.Settings.Default.MySettingString = "New Value";
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
...
string myValue = Properties.Settings.Default.MySettingString;

That would be nice as a solution, except i have two different projects and so it won't work as properies.settings are project specific.

 

I just need a way of passing a variable from a web project into a win forms project (within the same Visual Studio solution) for a person's name in a basic computer game, hence me trying to use a cookie, all ideas are welcomed as i am probably going a bad way of doing it.  The only other way i could think of was saving to an SQL database 

 

Many thanks,

 

Mark