AD FS and forms Authentication

Question

We have an Asp.Net website project which uses Forms Authentication. We have been asked to connect to some proxy servers using AD FS to authenticate by one of our clients. I am very new to AD FS and I have a questions.

Authenticate using AD FS is possible only with claims-enabled ASP.NET application or is there a work around to use this with Forms Authentication?

Answer 1

This tutorial shows how you can authenticate using ADFS with only a few dozen lines of code.

http://www.wiktorzychla.com/2014/11/simplest-saml11-federated-authentication.html

Note the exact moment the SAML token is validated and accepted. In my tutorial I issue the claims identity but you can easily put your forms identity there.

This is because consuming claim/saml token is completely independent of how you later establish a local session.