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

Store the session state in a database. Store the session key in the cookies of each sessions. At the AcquireSessionState event in the life cycle's of both applications, get the session id from the cookie, load the session data from the database and update your HttpContext.User. You will then have the same authentication data in both applications.