Should I use Cookies or Isolated Storage to store a small amount of data for a Silverlight app?

Question

I have a Silverilght app that needs to store a small amount of data (user preferences stuff) on the client. Should I store it using cookies, or using Silverlight's Isolated Storage? Why?

Answer 1

You should use isolated storage in most cases for the following reasons:

• Isolated storage will work in out-of-browser scenario
• Isolated storage will survive if user deletes cookies in the browsers
• Code using isolated storage is more portable
• Code to save user preference to isolated storage is simpler (see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc221360(v=vs.95).aspx)