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Asked: 2026-06-10T11:08:03+00:00

I’m currently developing a web application that will use Facebook as a authentication service.

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I’m currently developing a web application that will use Facebook as a authentication service. Does it make sense to implement it as an ASP.NET Forms Authentication custom membership provider? While I made my research, I didn’t come across any concrete significant advantage of using the Forms Authentication. However, it instinctively seems to me as a good thing to do, because aside from creating a completely custom implementation of authentication using Facebook, I didn’t find any extensibility point inside ASP.NET where I could plug in the Facebook auth behavior.

Can you then tell me whether the Forms Authentication is a good idea or not. And if not, is there any other way than completely custom code (I’d like to avoid managing the session cookies, loading the current user, etc. manually).

I’m using ASP.NET MVC 3, Entity Framework and I’d like to avoid the Facebook C# SDK (the extensive use of dynamic types is a bit of a turnoff for me 🙂 ).

Thanks for any advice.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A simple answer is to use .NET 4.5 oAuth templates, they are incredibly easy to link Facebook up to forms authentication.

    http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/oauth-in-the-default-aspnet-45-templates

    However you may struggle to find a decent server if you are planning on releasing immediately. In a couple of months plenty of servers will support .NET 4.5.

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