Is it possible to persist cookies between visual studio debug sessions

Question

I have an authentication cookie that gets set after I hit a login screen in my local environment. That cookie has been set to be persistent and has been given a timeout peri

Answer 1

Assuming you are using VS and ASPNet 4.5 or core 1.0/2.0 under IIS, check your debug output on start up and you might see :

“Neither user profile nor HKLM registry available. Using an ephemeral key repository. Protected data will be unavailable when application exits.”

This is caused by the DataProtection keys used by IIS. Follow this short blog post to resolve