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)

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

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.

// Get CookieTimeout.
TimeSpan cookieTimeout =
    anonymousIdentificationSection.CookieTimeout;
Console.WriteLine("Cookie timeout: {0}",
    cookieTimeout.ToString());

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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