command-timeout

How do I decide what length of time to use as a timeout when using an SqlCommand object? On parts of the code I'm working on (written by somebody else) I have: cmd.CommandTimeout = 60; Which I think is quite short. However, I have seen some people in forums talking about setting it to 30000, which seems too long. How do I know what is best for my application? It seems that people are confused as to whether this is seconds or milliseconds. The documentation states that the timeout is in seconds. A 1-minute timeout seems reasonable for most queries. An 8+ hour timeout doesn't seem reasonable. Do

I am looking a way to set CommandTimeout for DbContext. After searching I found the way by casting DbContext into ObjectContext and setting value for CommandTimeout property of objectContext. var objectContext = (this.DbContext as IObjectContextAdapter).ObjectContext; But I have to work with DbContext. It will work with your method. Or subclass it (from msdn forum ) public class YourContext : DbContext { public YourContext() : base("YourConnectionString") { // Get the ObjectContext related to this DbContext var objectContext = (this as IObjectContextAdapter).ObjectContext; // Sets the command

I cannot find the a way to set the command timeout of a linq query using entity framework 4.3 and its' DbContext. How do I increase Commandtimeout in entity framework? EDIT I am actually looking for Command Timeout increase. I confused the two, it is the sql command that is timing out not the connection. Thanks bricelam If you're using DbContext, you'll first need to drop down to ObjectContext: ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext.CommandTimeout = 180; I added the command timeout value in my Context class in an attempt to handle longer processing times for some of the stored