How do I manually log a user in with a MembershipProvider?

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I'm experimenting with writing my own custom MembershipProvider in asp.net and I want to roll my own login page. We do some fairly special stuff at login time so we can't use the default login control so I need a way to manually log a user in.

So far I haven't found anything on how to write your own login control so I'm here, wondering how I can manually log a user in via a MembershipProvider.

I've tried

Membership.ValidateUser("user", "pass");

and while that does call ValidateUser() on my custom MembershipProvider, and it does return true, it doesn't actually log me in.

Btw I'm fairly new to the whole MembershipProvider stuff so if I'm not even on the right wavelength, feel free to let me know.

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