In this article I am going to explain how to use form authentication in our web application to authenticate user.
Introduction Form authentication is used for internet web application. The advantage of form authentication is that users do not have to be member of a domain-based network to have access to your application. So the number of web application uses the form authentication in their web application.
There are three types of authentication in ASP.NET,
Here I am going to explain only implementation of Forms Authentication. These are the followings steps to use forms authentication in our web application. Step 1: Open Visual Studio then go to the File Menu where we click New, then Project and select the ASP.NET web application and assign the name of the application in pop up menu. Step 2: After selecting the web application select an empty template here.
Step 8: By entering the valid username and password our application will successfully authenticate the user which will redirect to the next welcome page after successfully login. Here we checked the Remember me check box which means let's say you logged in and close the browser. You again open the browser with welcome page then you can access the authorized page without login. That means our browser cookies are enabled which store the user data in text file until the browser is cleared.
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