--- title: "Use Custom Principal Objects | Microsoft Docs" author: JoeStagner description: "Joe Stagner demonstrates how to implement custom identity in principal objects in order to store user authentication data. For more information on this demo,..." ms.author: aspnetcontent manager: wpickett ms.date: 07/16/2008 ms.topic: article ms.assetid: 368733eb-0822-4b97-8e5a-127be6c88a61 ms.technology: dotnet-webforms ms.prod: .net-framework msc.legacyurl: /web-forms/videos/authentication/use-custom-principal-objects msc.type: video --- Use Custom Principal Objects ==================== by [Joe Stagner](https://github.com/JoeStagner) Joe Stagner demonstrates how to implement custom identity in principal objects in order to store user authentication data. For more information on this demo, a tutorial is located [here.](../../overview/older-versions-security/introduction/forms-authentication-configuration-and-advanced-topics-vb.md) [▶ Watch video (22 minutes)](https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/ASP-NET-Site-Videos/use-custom-principal-objects) >[!div class="step-by-step"] [Previous](add-custom-data-to-the-authentication-method.md) [Next](understanding-aspnet-memberships.md)