How to set timeout in windows applications?

Question

i want to export nearly 40000 records into excel how much timeout period i have to set for small amount of data i was Exported into excel When i m exporting large amount of data into excel i m getting following Error Error: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server not responding How to rectify this error help me Thanks inadvance

Jiteendra Sampathirao · Answer

change the timeout settings in app.config file.....

Amit Choudhary · Answer

Try setting max value of time out i.e.: 65535 seconds But its a worst practice. try debugging your code find which statement is taking too much time of execution and why? It could be a bottleneck where client has to wait for server to respond.