I am building a asp.net web application in Visual Basic .NET and want to compare data in a cookie with a string. Now, when I do so, I recieve a error (Object reference not set to an instance of an object).

So I tried about everything and it still wouldn't work. Why? Someone please help me.

---- Code (Example) ----

Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

If Request.Cookies("cookie1")("item1") = "12345" Then
    Response.Write("It works!")
Else
    Response.Write("At least no error...")
End If

End Sub

cookies are more a pain in the ass than they were in ASP 3.0, but here's some code that might work... i just turned it out in a few mins without testing, but give it a try:

Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
 Dim objCookie As System.Web.HttpCookie
 objCookie = HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies("cookie1")

 Try
     If objCookie.Item("item1").ToString() = "12345" then
          Response.Write("Cookie valid and equal")
     else
          Response.Write("Cookie valid and NOT equal")
     end if
 Catch
     Response.Write("Cookie doesnt exist")
 End Try
End Sub