SqlRoleProvider.IsUserInRole(String, String) Method
Definition
Important
Some information relates to prerelease product that may be substantially modified before it’s released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here.
Gets a value indicating whether the specified user is in the specified role.
public:
override bool IsUserInRole(System::String ^ username, System::String ^ roleName);public override bool IsUserInRole (string username, string roleName);override this.IsUserInRole : string * string -> boolPublic Overrides Function IsUserInRole (username As String, roleName As String) As BooleanParameters
- username
- String
The user name to search for.
- roleName
- String
The role to search in.
Returns
true if the specified user name is in the specified role; otherwise, false.
Exceptions
roleName is an empty string or contains a comma.
-or-
username is contains a comma.
-or-
roleName is longer than 256 characters.
-or-
username is longer than 256 characters.
An unknown error occurred while communicating with the database.
Examples
The following code example programmatically checks to see whether the logged-on user is in the Administrators role before allowing the user to view user roles. For an example of a Web.config file that enables role management, see SqlRoleProvider.
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
string[] rolesArray;
MembershipUserCollection users;
public void Page_Load()
{
Msg.Text = "";
try
{
if (!Roles.IsUserInRole(User.Identity.Name, "Administrators"))
{
Msg.Text = "You are not authorized to view user roles.";
UsersListBox.Visible = false;
return;
}
}
catch (HttpException e)
{
Msg.Text = "There is no current logged on user. Role membership cannot be verified.";
return;
}
if (!IsPostBack)
{
// Bind users to ListBox.
users = Membership.GetAllUsers();
UsersListBox.DataSource = users;
UsersListBox.DataBind();
}
// If a user is selected, show the roles for the selected user.
if (UsersListBox.SelectedItem != null)
{
// Bind roles to GridView.
rolesArray = Roles.GetRolesForUser(UsersListBox.SelectedItem.Value);
UserRolesGrid.DataSource = rolesArray;
UserRolesGrid.DataBind();
UserRolesGrid.Columns[0].HeaderText = "Roles for " + UsersListBox.SelectedItem.Value;
}
}
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Sample: View User Roles</title>
</head>
<body>
<form runat="server" id="PageForm">
<h3>View User Roles</h3>
<asp:Label id="Msg" ForeColor="maroon" runat="server" /><br />
<table border="0" cellspacing="4">
<tr>
<td valign="top"><asp:ListBox id="UsersListBox" DataTextField="Username"
Rows="8" AutoPostBack="true" runat="server" /></td>
<td valign="top"><asp:GridView runat="server" CellPadding="4" id="UserRolesGrid"
AutoGenerateColumns="false" Gridlines="None"
CellSpacing="0" >
<HeaderStyle BackColor="navy" ForeColor="white" />
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Roles" >
<ItemTemplate>
<%# Container.DataItem.ToString() %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
Dim rolesArray() As String
Dim users As MembershipUserCollection
Public Sub Page_Load()
Msg.Text = ""
Try
If Not Roles.IsUserInRole(User.Identity.Name, "Administrators") Then
Msg.Text = "You are not authorized to view user roles."
UsersListBox.Visible = False
Return
End If
Catch e As HttpException
Msg.Text = "There is no current logged on user. Role membership cannot be verified."
Return
End Try
If Not IsPostBack Then
' Bind users to ListBox.
users = Membership.GetAllUsers()
UsersListBox.DataSource = users
UsersListBox.DataBind()
End If
' If a user is selected, show the roles for the selected user.
If Not UsersListBox.SelectedItem Is Nothing Then
' Bind roles to GridView.
rolesArray = Roles.GetRolesForUser(UsersListBox.SelectedItem.Value)
UserRolesGrid.DataSource = rolesArray
UserRolesGrid.DataBind()
UserRolesGrid.Columns(0).HeaderText = "Roles for " & UsersListBox.SelectedItem.Value
End If
End Sub
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Sample: View User Roles</title>
</head>
<body>
<form runat="server" id="PageForm">
<h3>View User Roles</h3>
<asp:Label id="Msg" ForeColor="maroon" runat="server" /><br />
<table border="0" cellspacing="4">
<tr>
<td valign="top"><asp:ListBox id="UsersListBox" DataTextField="Username"
Rows="8" AutoPostBack="true" runat="server" /></td>
<td valign="top"><asp:GridView runat="server" CellPadding="4" id="UserRolesGrid"
AutoGenerateColumns="false" Gridlines="None"
CellSpacing="0" >
<HeaderStyle BackColor="navy" ForeColor="white" />
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Roles" >
<ItemTemplate>
<%# Container.DataItem.ToString() %>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Remarks
The IsUserInRole method is called by the Roles class and the IsInRole method of the Page.User property to determine whether a user is associated with a role in the SQL Server database specified in the ASP.NET application's configuration file (Web.config).
