SystemWebSectionGroup.Authentication Property

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System.Web.Configuration

Assembly:: System.Web.dll

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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.

Applies to

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