Question

I have a ASP.NET Application where I use Sessions. In this Session I get the language for Example.

Example:

Session["language"] = language; 

And in a other Area in my Code I use then…

language = Session["language"].toString();

It works fine but the user had open the Browser about a feu Hours in the Background with the Application then the Session don’t work 🙁

Why it doesn’t work and how I can solve this Problem.

Answer 1

You have two options either to use cookies or to increase session timeout setting.

You can increase the session timeout by increasing timeout in the web.config.

<configuration>
  <system.web>
  ...
   <sessionState timeout="90" />
  ...
 </system.web>
</configuration>

In my opinion using cookies is a better approach.

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