How do you use an Ampersand in an HTTPCookie in VB.NET?

Question

I have a cookie saved to the user as follows...

Dim searchCookie As HttpCookie = New HttpCookie(\"SearchCriteria\")
searchCookie.Item(\"SearchText\") = FullSearc         


        

Answer 1

The cookie values need to be encoded. I'm no VB expert, but it looks like this is done with the method

System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode