Question

I am implementing my own session provider, and would like to know if the default of 20 minutes is set in the session provider automatically? Is this value provided whether or not an entry is in the configuration file?

If not should my session provider is supposed to get it from another location?

Answer 1

I couldn’t find the value in a global configuration file, but it’s defined somewhere.

Using the following code you can get the session timeout value whether or not it is defined in your local web.config.

Configuration conf = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.ApplicationVirtualPath);
SessionStateSection section = (SessionStateSection) conf.GetSection("system.web/sessionState");
int timeout = (int) section.Timeout.TotalMinutes;