forms authentication and roles

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Phil Townsend

I am integrating forms authentication in a web app which authenticates
users who are listed in a SQL Server table. There will be a small list
of application roles associated with each user and I would like to store
this list of roles in SQL as well. How would one go about this? Thanks!
 
Phil,

Are you using ASP.NET 2.0? If you are then I would take a look at the
SqlRoleProvider and the SqlMembershipProvider classes. They (along with a
number of other classes) work with the new user/roles framework that is
included in ASP.NET 2.0.

If you are not doing this, then you will have to create a class that
implements IPrincipal, where the implementation would get the roles for the
user from the database and return true or false from IsInRole when called
with a particular role.

Hope this helps.
 

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