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

Using your Membership Provider you can validate a user using Membership.ValidateUser. Then you can set the authentication cookie using FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie. As long as you have a cookie container this should allow you to log in a user.