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I am exploring the possibilities of ASP.NET MVC in the example webapplication of Visual Studio the WebMatrix.WebData.WebSecurity is used for Membership (creating accounts, and specify that a user is logged in to view a specific page etc.). But after some searching I found that there is also a System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication class that can be used for Membership.
Does anybody know the differences/pro's and cons between these two classes? And when to use WebSecurity and when to use FormsAuthentication? (and maybe a clear example of FormsAuthentication)
Thanks in advance
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Windows Authentication mode provides the developer to authenticate a user based on Windows user accounts. This is the default authentication mode provided by ASP.Net. You can easily get the Identity of the user by using User.Identity.Name. This will return the computer name along with the user name.
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.
By default, forms authentication protects only ASPX pages and any other . NET extensions. You can configure forms authentication to protect other static extensions such as . jpg, .
Forms– users are authenticated via a form on a web page. Passport– users are authenticated using Microsoft's Passport Network. None– no authentication model is used; all visitors are anonymous.
WebSecurity was introduced in WebMatrix 2 and ASP.NET MVC 4. It relies on the SimpleMembershipProvider. Under the covers it uses FormsAuthentication to manage cookies. So I guess that if you are starting a new project you would opt for the new model if this model fits your needs. Bare in mind that the SimpleMembershipProvider exposes less functionality than the original provider.
The original membership provider uses the SqlMembershipProvider which in turn uses plain ADO.NET to query the database.
The SimpleMembershipProvider uses the new Database class introduced in WebMatrix to query the SQL database.
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