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AnonymousIdentificationSection::CookieTimeout Property

Gets or sets the amount of time, in minutes, after which the authentication expires.

Namespace:  System.Web.Configuration
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

[TypeConverterAttribute(typeof(TimeSpanMinutesOrInfiniteConverter))]
[ConfigurationPropertyAttribute(L"cookieTimeout", DefaultValue = L"69.10:40:00")]
[TimeSpanValidatorAttribute(MinValueString = L"00:00:00", MaxValueString = L"10675199.02:48:05.4775807")]
public:
property TimeSpan CookieTimeout {
	TimeSpan get ();
	void set (TimeSpan value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::TimeSpan
The amount of time, in minutes, after which the authentication expires. The default value is 100000.

This property can be set to an arbitrarily large value, but internally the CookieTimeout value is limited to a maximum value of two years.

The following code example shows how to access the CookieTimeout property.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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