Handle the ASP.NET session and forms authentication timeouts with a single
control!
Does your site behave strange when the time is over? Your
user worked diligently to put all requested data to your form. It took longer.
Perhaps he had to think or to dig out some data. Was he distracted by a phone
call? Finally he clicks the submit button just to learn that all his work is
wasted and he has to start again. Isn’t it a sad story? Now there is an easy
way to warn the user before the page times out and give him enough time to
handle the situation. Just add the TimeoutHandlingCtrl.dll file to the bin folder!
- The Timeout Handling Control can handle both the ASP.NET session timeout and the
ASP.NET forms authentication timeout.
- The Timeout Handling Control can be used on individual pages or it can be added
to the master page to handle the timeout situation on all content pages.
- The Timeout Handling Control can handle all visitors or authenticated visitors
only.
- Both the warning that the page will expire soon and the explanation on the page
that it had expired are independent, highly configurable and can be individually
templated and styled.
- You can set how early before the page expires the user is warned.
- Both the warning and the explanation are implemented as a floating div so they
are not distractive and avoid problems with popup blocking technologies.
- The Timeout Handling Control is
Ajax
compatible although it does not require
Ajax
enabled web site.
- The warning is as unobtrusive as possible. It is semitransparent (Internet
Explorer 5+ only) and it can be repositioned - moved by the mouse. You can even
continue typing into a textbox behind the warning.
- The warning can include countdown indicator that changes its value every second.
- The expired page can be grayed (Internet Explorer 5+ only).
For the complete Timeout Handling Control Manual (pdf) click here