MVC ASP.NET - Manually authorize someone and persist the authorization via Forms Authentication

Question

I want the benefits of form authentication in ASP.NET. I want it to persist the authorization for me and such, but there\'s one thing different about my situation; I want to au

Answer 1

As Wiktor commented, implement your own MembershipProvider. Just implement the methods you need, leave the rest throwing a NotImplementedException.

In your case, it looks like all you need to implement is public bool ValidateUser(string username, string password) - the implementation of which just needs to call through to your webservice.

Then you can use all the standard built-in authentication and authorization stuff.