Request.IsAuthenticated is always false

Question

Can you tell me why FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(user.Name, false); is not causing Request.IsAuthenticated to be true?

Here is my code

Answer 1

You are checking if the user is authenticated. So use:

if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) 

This will fix the issue and as mentioned set the authentication element in your web.config to Forms and not Windows.