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AuthenticationService::Authenticating Event
Visual Studio 2010
Occurs when user credentials are being validated.
Assembly: System.Web.Extensions (in System.Web.Extensions.dll)
The following example shows how to bind an event handler for the Authenticating event in the Application_Start method of the Global.asax file.
The following example shows an event handler for the Authenticating event in the Global.asax file. The event handler reads two authentication values from the CustomCredential property and passes them together with the user name and password to a custom authentication class named StudentAuthentication.
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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