ASP.NET Web Applications ASP.NET Web Application Security ASP.NET Roles
Role management consists of a set of classes and interfaces that establish roles for the current user and manage role information. The following table shows the role management classes and functions that they provide.
| Class/Interface |
Functions |
| Roles |
Provides general management facilities for roles.
- Creates roles.
- Adds users to roles.
- Determines whether specific user is in role.
- Gets roles for users.
- Removes users from role.
- Manages the cookie containing role information.
 NOTE: The functions for creating roles and assigning users to them do not work if you are using the WindowsTokenRoleProvider. In that case, you manage role information using Windows.
|
| RoleProvider |
Defines functionality for data providers that can be used by role-management services.
- Defines the functionality a provider must implement to be used by the Roles class.
|
| RoleManagerModule |
Adds role information to the current User property.
- Automatically creates a RolePrincipal and attaches it to the current context.
- Raises a GetRoles event that allows you to customize the process of adding roles to the current user context.
|
| RoleManagerEventArgs |
Defines arguments passed to the RoleManager_GetRoles event.
- Provides access to the current user context during the GetRoles event.
|
| RolePrincipal |
Acts as a IPrincipal object and caches the roles for a user.
- Stores role information for the current user.
- Manages retrieval of role information from either the cookie or the database ( or both, if necessary ).
|
Role Management Providers