programmatic login with .net membership provider

Question

I\'m trying to unit test a piece of code that needs a currently logged in user in the test. Using the .Net 2.0 Membership Provider, how can I programmatically log in as a us

Answer 1

Does your code actually need a user logged in via ASP.NET, or does it just need a CurrentPrincipal? I don't think you need to programmatically log in to your site. You can create a GenericPrincipal, set the properties you need, and attach it to, for example Thread.CurrentPrincipal or a mocked HttpContext. If your code actually needs RolePrincipal or something then I would change the code to be less coupled to ASP.NET membership.