Hi Max,
Nahid has given you a typical code snippet on how to programmatically do
the membership user validation and FormsAuthentication Login operations.
Actually, for the FormsAuthentication and User validation in ASP.NET 2.0,
it consists of two parts:
1. Use membership API to validate the user's username/password credentials
2. All FormsAuthentication API to logon(generate and set authentication
ticket/cookie).
Here are some further articles introducing the model of ASP.NET
formsauthentication and membership service and how they work together:
#Explained: Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480476.aspx
#Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 1
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx
If you have any further specific questions on this, please feel free to
post here.
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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