Redirect and the ThreadAbort exception

Tired of getting the ThreadAbort exception when you have the Common Language Runtime Exceptions enabled? Then do it properly using the following code:

Response.Redirect(url, false);
Context.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();

Enjoy!

Redirecting any unauthenticated requests to a login form located on another asp.net application

If you have configured forms authentication across multiple asp.net applications, you may want to force users to authenticate in a single signing form. To do so you may implement a simple HttpModule that will be handling the AuthenticateRequest and redirecting to the corresponding login form.

Asp.net HTTP module to force authenticate user via Basic WWW-Authenticate dialogue

Playing around with the available authentication methods I came up with a simple Http module that forces the browser to display the build in credentials form and authenticates the user by simply adding a line in the web.config file.