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AuthenticationService::Authenticating Event

 

Occurs when user credentials are being validated.

Namespace:   System.Web.ApplicationServices
Assembly:  System.Web.Extensions (in System.Web.Extensions.dll)

public:
event EventHandler<AuthenticatingEventArgs^>^ Authenticating {
	static void add(EventHandler<AuthenticatingEventArgs^>^ value);
	static void remove(EventHandler<AuthenticatingEventArgs^>^ value);
}

The Authenticating event is raised when user credentials are being validated. Create an event handler for the Authenticating event to customize how user credentials are validated.

The following example shows how to bind an event handler for the Authenticating event in the Application_Start method of the Global.asax file.

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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.

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.NET Framework
Available since 3.5
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