AnonymousIdentificationSection.CookieTimeout Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web.Configuration

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

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

public:
 property TimeSpan CookieTimeout { TimeSpan get(); void set(TimeSpan value); };

[System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter(typeof(System.Configuration.TimeSpanMinutesOrInfiniteConverter))]
[System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("cookieTimeout", DefaultValue="69.10:40:00")]
[System.Configuration.TimeSpanValidator(MaxValueString="10675199.02:48:05.4775807", MinValueString="00:00:00")]
public TimeSpan CookieTimeout { get; set; }

[<System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter(typeof(System.Configuration.TimeSpanMinutesOrInfiniteConverter))>]
[<System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("cookieTimeout", DefaultValue="69.10:40:00")>]
[<System.Configuration.TimeSpanValidator(MaxValueString="10675199.02:48:05.4775807", MinValueString="00:00:00")>]
member this.CookieTimeout : TimeSpan with get, set

Public Property CookieTimeout As TimeSpan

Property Value

TimeSpan

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

Attributes

TypeConverterAttribute ConfigurationPropertyAttribute TimeSpanValidatorAttribute

Examples

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

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

' Get CookieTimeout.
Dim cookieTimeout As TimeSpan = _
anonymousIdentificationSection.CookieTimeout
Console.WriteLine( _
"Cookie timeout: {0}", cookieTimeout.ToString())

Remarks

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