Question

As I understand it “forms” is just a method to authenticate users. Is this correct?

But what “membership” really is I don’t know. I’ve written a custom membership provider but I still don’t really see what “membership” is about it if I’m using a custom user table and custom roles table.

So what is forms?

And what is membership?

Answer 1

“Forms” authentication is using the ability to use a form to authenticate a user through them entering a username and password. This is in contrast to using Windows authentication.

“Membership” is a way of storing information against a certain user once they have been authenticated and are logged into the system.

Hope this helps.