Using cookies to store session in ASP MVC

Question

Storing the entire session in a cookie has been standard in Rails for the last few years - is there an easy way to achieve something similar with ASP MVC?

By default, an

Answer 1

yes, implement a custom state session-provider. And no, afaik there isn't a simpler approach.

Ps. it isn't as bad as it looks i.e. > half of the odbc sample is writing to the db.