"The timeout period elapsed prior to completion.."

September 11, 2007 by Vasanth Kumararajan

“The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.”
If this sounds familiar using the SqlClient Class or the Data Access Application Blocks “SqlHelper”, and you have increased the Connection Timeout and the Connect Lifetime (for pooling) in your connection string(s), its probably because you forgot to set the COMMAND timeout!
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