ASP.NET Syntax   ASP.NET Configuration Sections

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Defines configuration settings that control the behavior of the application hosting environment.

<hostingEnvironment
   idleTimeout = "HH:MM:SS"
   shadowCopyBinAssemblies = "true | false"
   shutdownTimeout = "number"
/>

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attribute	Description
idleTimeout	Optional TimeSpan attribute. Sets the amount of time, in minutes, before unloading an inactive application. Default is Infinite.
shadowCopyBinAssemblies	Optional Boolean attribute. Sets a Boolean value indicating whether the assemblies of an application in the Bin directory are shadow copied to the application’s ASP.NET Temporary Files directory. Default is true.
shutdownTimeout	Optional TimeSpan attribute. Sets the amount of time, in seconds, to gracefully shut down the application. Default is 30.

None.

Element	Description
configuration	The required root element in every configuration file used by the common language runtime and .NET Framework applications.
system.web	Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration settings in a configuration file. Contains configuration elements that configure ASP.NET Web applications and control how the applications behave.

The following default hostingEnvironment element is not explicitly configured in the machine configuration file or in the root Web.config file, but is the default configuration returned by an application in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<hostingEnvironment
   idleTimeout = "Infinite"
   shutdownTimeout = "30"
   shadowCopyBinAssemblies = "true" />

The following example shows how to control the behavior of the application hosting environment.

<system.web>
   <hostingEnvironment idleTimeout = "20"
      shutdownTimeout = "30" />
</system.web>

ASP.NET Configuration   HostingEnvironmentSection Class