AnonymousIdentificationSection Class
Configures anonymous identification for users that are not authenticated. This class cannot be inherited.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
System.Configuration::ConfigurationElement
System.Configuration::ConfigurationSection
System.Web.Configuration::AnonymousIdentificationSection
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | AnonymousIdentificationSection() | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Initializes a new instance of the AnonymousIdentificationSection class. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Cookieless | Gets or sets a value indicating whether to use cookies. |
| CookieName | Gets or sets the cookie name. |
| CookiePath | Gets or sets the path where the cookie is stored. |
| CookieProtection | Gets or sets the encryption type used to encrypt the cookie. |
| CookieRequireSSL | Gets or sets a value indicating whether a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection is required when transmitting authentication information. |
| CookieSlidingExpiration | Gets or sets whether the cookie time-out value is reset on each request. |
| CookieTimeout | Gets or sets the amount of time, in minutes, after which the authentication expires. |
| CurrentConfiguration | Gets a reference to the top-level Configuration instance that represents the configuration hierarchy that the current ConfigurationElement instance belongs to.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| Domain | Gets or sets the cookie domain. |
| ElementInformation | Gets an ElementInformation object that contains the non-customizable information and functionality of the ConfigurationElement object. (Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
 | ElementProperty | Gets the ConfigurationElementProperty object that represents the ConfigurationElement object itself.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| Enabled | Gets or sets a value indicating whether anonymous identification is enabled. |
| Item[ConfigurationProperty^] | Gets or sets a property or attribute of this configuration element.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| Item[String^] | Gets or sets a property, attribute, or child element of this configuration element.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| LockAllAttributesExcept | Gets the collection of locked attributes.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| LockAllElementsExcept | Gets the collection of locked elements.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| LockAttributes | Gets the collection of locked attributes (Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| LockElements | Gets the collection of locked elements.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| LockItem | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the element is locked.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| Properties | Gets the collection of properties.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| SectionInformation | Gets a SectionInformation object that contains the non-customizable information and functionality of the ConfigurationSection object. (Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | DeserializeElement(XmlReader^, Boolean) | Reads XML from the configuration file.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| DeserializeSection(XmlReader^) | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Reads XML from the configuration file.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| Equals(Object^) | Compares the current ConfigurationElement instance to the specified object.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| GetHashCode() | Gets a unique value representing the current ConfigurationElement instance.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| GetRuntimeObject() | Returns a custom object when overridden in a derived class.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| GetType() | |
| Init() | Sets the ConfigurationElement object to its initial state.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| InitializeDefault() | Used to initialize a default set of values for the ConfigurationElement object.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| IsModified() | Indicates whether this configuration element has been modified since it was last saved or loaded when implemented in a derived class.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| IsReadOnly() | Gets a value indicating whether the ConfigurationElement object is read-only.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| Reset(ConfigurationElement^) | Resets the internal state of the ConfigurationElement object, including the locks and the properties collections.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| ResetModified() | Resets the value of the IsModified method to false when implemented in a derived class.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| SerializeElement(XmlWriter^, Boolean) | Writes the contents of this configuration element to the configuration file when implemented in a derived class.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| SerializeSection(ConfigurationElement^, String^, ConfigurationSaveMode) | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Creates an XML string containing an unmerged view of the ConfigurationSection object as a single section to write to a file.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| SerializeToXmlElement(XmlWriter^, String^) | Writes the outer tags of this configuration element to the configuration file when implemented in a derived class.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| SetReadOnly() | Sets the IsReadOnly property for the ConfigurationElement object and all subelements.(Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
| ShouldSerializeElementInTargetVersion(ConfigurationElement^, String^, FrameworkName^) | Indicates whether the specified element should be serialized when the configuration object hierarchy is serialized for the specified target version of the .NET Framework.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| ShouldSerializePropertyInTargetVersion(ConfigurationProperty^, String^, FrameworkName^, ConfigurationElement^) | Indicates whether the specified property should be serialized when the configuration object hierarchy is serialized for the specified target version of the .NET Framework.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| ShouldSerializeSectionInTargetVersion(FrameworkName^) | Indicates whether the current ConfigurationSection instance should be serialized when the configuration object hierarchy is serialized for the specified target version of the .NET Framework.(Inherited from ConfigurationSection.) |
| ToString() | Returns a string that represents the current object.(Inherited from Object.) |
| Unmerge(ConfigurationElement^, ConfigurationElement^, ConfigurationSaveMode) | Modifies the ConfigurationElement object to remove all values that should not be saved. (Inherited from ConfigurationElement.) |
The AnonymousIdentificationSection class allows you to programmatically access and modify the anonymousIdentification element of a configuration file.
The purpose of anonymous identification is to assign, at machine and application level, a unique identity to a non-authenticated user. This unique identity can then be used to track the user. Anonymous identification as used in this context does not have any relationship with the identity of the issuer of the Web request or with other security aspects related to the user; it simply assigns a unique identity for tracking purposes and user state management.
Anonymous users are often tracked using the Session identifier. The main problems with this approach are the non-uniqueness of the identifier and the overhead involved in storing data to set a Session state value, which must be done in order to assign a session identifier to a user. Anonymous identification resolves these problems by providing a unique identifier for each non-authenticated user and not requiring the user to store any data to set the identifier.
Available since 2.0
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.