Increase Session TimeOut in MVC 4

In this article I will show you how you can increate session timeout in an mvc4 application. It will help you on increasing the timeout value of the session. In this case the stored information in session will retain for longer time.

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So for increasing the session value we needed to add a small configuration in our asp.net mvc web.config file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!--   For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=152368   --> <configuration>    <system.web>     <sessionState mode="InProc" timeout="30" />     </system.web> </configuration>

In above configuration we have raised the session time out  up to 30 minutes.