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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then
how and from where?

Question Posted / mehsam

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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then how and from where?..

Answer / narinder mahindru

By default session time out is 20 minutes but one can
change it. there are two ways to change the sessiontime out
in asp.net that is:-


1) from web config. file by setting the session timot
element eg.
<sessionstate timeout="60"/>

or
2) by doing programtically eg.
session.timeout=60

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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then how and from where?..

Answer / sabeer pasha

Hi All,

Have u set any time limit in the web.config file if not
then set like this
mode="InProc"
stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
sqlConnectionString="data
source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes"
cookieless="false"
timeout="20"
/>

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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then how and from where?..

Answer / narendra

to change session timeout write this code in your web.config
file

<sessionState mode="InProc" timeout="60">

it will increase your session expire time .

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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then how and from where?..

Answer / narendra soni

to change session timeout write this code in your web.config
file

<sessionState mode="InProc" timeout="60">

or you can also set this in global.asax file as

Session.Timeout = 60 ; // in Session.Start() event

it will increase your session expire time .

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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then how and from where?..

Answer / guest

yes go to change webconfig session timeout.

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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then how and from where?..

Answer / saminathan

The session in my application often gets expired.

I've tried giving session timings both
in the page directive of the page
as well as

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Can we change the session timeout in ASP.NET, if yes then how and from where?..

Answer / mohammad aziz

Yes ofcourse. There are few steps which needs to be
followed. Pls. visit this link to have a beautiful
explaination...
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