FormsAuthentication overview and quick questions?

Question

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to learn a more about ASP.Net forms authentication, for use in a website we're building at work. I was wondering if there were some particularly good overviews out there on how it operates?

One question that I was wondering about is how it stores the username and password info when you've signed in. I believe forms authentication requires cookies to be enabled (correct me if not) but I also assume it doesn't store the username and password in the cookie? Just curious to know authorization and authentication is handled per url request after you've looged in. Thanks!

Answer 1

See How to: Implement Simple Forms Authentication, and in general http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=forms%20authentication&ac=1.