Walkthrough: Terminate a User Session

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This walkthrough demonstrates how to use the Security Application Block to expire a user token.

To reproduce the demonstration

  1. Authenticate the user. The following code demonstrates how to authenticate a user using the System.Web.Security.Membership class.
  2. Create the security cache by adding the following code.
  3. Call the SaveIdentity method on the security cache object by adding the following code.
  4. Call the ExpireIdentity method on the security cache object by adding the following code.

This removes the identity information associated with the token from the cache.