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sessionPageState Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) 

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Configures page view-state settings for an ASP.NET application.

<sessionPageState historySize="number" />

Attributes and Elements

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

Attributes

Attribute Description

historySize

Optional Int32 attribute.

Sets the number of entries to be stored in the page history.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Element Description

configuration

The 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 section.

Remarks

Default Configuration

The following default sessionPageState 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.

<sessionPageState historySize="9" />

Example

The following example configures the session page state for an ASP.NET application.

<sessionPageState historySize="5" />

Element Information

Configuration section handler

System.Web.Configuration.SessionPageStateSection

Configuration member

Not Applicable

Configurable locations

Machine.config

Root-level Web.config

Application-level Web.config

Virtual or physical directory-level Web.config

Requirements

IIS version 6.0

.NET Framework version 2.0

Visual Studio 2005

See Also

Tasks

How to: Configure Specific Directories Using Location Settings
How to: Lock ASP.NET Configuration Settings

Reference

system.web Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
configuration Element (General Settings Schema)
System.Web.Configuration.PagesSection.EnableSessionState
System.Configuration
System.Web.Configuration

Concepts

ASP.NET Configuration File Hierarchy and Inheritance
Securing ASP.NET Configuration
ASP.NET Configuration Scenarios

Other Resources

General Configuration Settings (ASP.NET)
ASP.NET Configuration Settings
Configuring ASP.NET Applications
ASP.NET Configuration Files
ASP.NET Configuration API