SystemWebSectionGroup.Authentication Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web.Configuration

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets the authentication section.

public:
 property System::Web::Configuration::AuthenticationSection ^ Authentication { System::Web::Configuration::AuthenticationSection ^ get(); };

[System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("authentication")]
public System.Web.Configuration.AuthenticationSection Authentication { get; }

[<System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("authentication")>]
member this.Authentication : System.Web.Configuration.AuthenticationSection

Public ReadOnly Property Authentication As AuthenticationSection

Property Value

AuthenticationSection

The AuthenticationSection object.

Attributes

ConfigurationPropertyAttribute

Examples

The following code example shows how to obtain the AuthenticationSection object from the configuration file of an existing Web application.

// Get the authentication section.
AuthenticationSection authentication =
    systemWeb.Authentication;
// Read section information.
info =
    authentication.SectionInformation;
name = info.SectionName;
type = info.Type;
declared = info.IsDeclared.ToString();
msg = String.Format(
  "Name:     {0}\nDeclared: {1}\nType:     {2}\n",
  name, declared, type);

' Get the authentication section.
Dim authentication _
As AuthenticationSection = _
systemWeb.Authentication
' Read section information.
info = authentication.SectionInformation
name = info.SectionName
type = info.Type
declared = info.IsDeclared.ToString()
msg = String.Format("Name:     {0}" + _
ControlChars.Lf + "Declared: {1}" + _
ControlChars.Lf + "Type:     {2}" + _
ControlChars.Lf, name, declared, type)

Remarks

The AuthenticationSection object refers to the authentication section of the configuration file.

See also

• AuthenticationSection