We plan to move our web site into sharepoint. We need to customize existing and default sharepoint window authentication to the form authenticaiton. In other word, We need to replace existing sharepoint login with our web form login which is againt to database. I have no idea how to start it. any information are welcome, like example code, documents,tool, links, .. I have downloaded sharepoint developer.setup and SDK, don't know which one I should use.... thanks Gary

Hi Gary, As far as i understood you, You want to implement the FBA so you can create user in your external database also. You can follow the instructions in below URL's. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/FBA.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx Hope it could helpCheers, Hemendra-MCTS "Yesterday is just a memory,Tomorrow we may never see"

Hi Hemendra, Thanks for your help and that is what I need exactly. Gary

Hi Hemendra, Thanks for your help and that is what I need exactly. Gary Moderator Note: Gary: ask your 2010 follow-up question in a SP 2010 forum. It's off-topic here so I deleted it.

Hi Hemendra, Both link are for sharepoint 2007. I can use it for sharepoint 2010 ? or there is similar docs for sharepoint 2010. thanks, Gary