What is the purpose of membership. ValidateUser ()

Question

I was studying the MembershipProvider class, and I thought that the Membership.ValidateUser() method should be used to log in the user.

However, I just found out that there is FormsAuthentication.Authenticate() .

What is the purpose of ValidateUser() inside Membership ?

Answer 1

In short, there are times when you can simply verify that the user is the one who, according to them, does not need to permanently save the cookie for authentication.

Answer 2

It only checks your data source (database) if the transmitted username and password exist in the database and match and return true Check MSDN . If they do not match, it returns false

 public static bool ValidateUser(string username, string password)