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How is FormsAuthentication class been implemented? How to see its source?

Jan 11, 2012 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

Reference Assemblies only contain metadata, not real code (mostly used by Visual Studio for when referencing assemblies).

Using Reflector, you need to do File | Open Global Assembly Cache and get System.Web from there, after having unloaded the other System.Web from Reference Assemblies.

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