How can I share .net (C#) based authenticated session between web forms and MVC2 applications?

Question

We have a small application we built in our spare time using the latest mvc3 and Entity Framework .net libraries available at the time, and deployed it. The management liked

Answer 1

First, the fact one application is ASP.NET MVC does make no difference here :)

Second, here is one example of what to do from MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/eb0zx8fc.aspx

Small snippet from that page:

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P.S.

StriplingWarrior's advice of merging both applications although not really required but may be very useful for future integrations. You may later end up doing it anyway.