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Roles.Providers Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.Security
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets a collection of the role providers for the ASP.NET application.

public:
 static property System::Web::Security::RoleProviderCollection ^ Providers { System::Web::Security::RoleProviderCollection ^ get(); };
public static System.Web.Security.RoleProviderCollection Providers { get; }
static member Providers : System.Web.Security.RoleProviderCollection
Public Shared ReadOnly Property Providers As RoleProviderCollection

Property Value

RoleProviderCollection

A RoleProviderCollection that contains the role providers configured for the ASP.NET application.

Exceptions

ProviderException

Role management is not enabled.

Examples

The following code example lists the providers enabled for an application and their respective types.

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Configuration.Provider" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>List Enabled Providers</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
foreach (RoleProvider p in Roles.Providers)
  Response.Write(p.Name + ", " + p.GetType() + "<br />");
%>

</body>
</html>

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Configuration.Provider" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>List Enabled Providers</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
For Each p As RoleProvider In Roles.Providers
  Response.Write(p.Name & ", " & p.GetType().ToString() & "<br />")
Next
%>

</body>
</html>

Remarks

The Providers property references all the role providers enabled for an application, including any providers added in the Web.config file. You can control which role providers are available for an application by using the providers element of the roleManager section in the Web.config file for your application.

The following example shows a roleManager section that removes any existing providers (such as those specified in the Machine.config file) and adds a SqlRoleProvider instance as the role provider for the application.

<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="SqlServices" connectionString="Data Source=MySqlServer;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=aspnetdb;" />
  </connectionStrings>

  <system.web>
    <roleManager defaultProvider="SqlProvider"
      enabled="true"
      cacheRolesInCookie="true"
      cookieName=".ASPROLES"
      cookieTimeout="30"
      cookiePath="/"
      cookieRequireSSL="false"
      cookieSlidingExpiration="true"
      cookieProtection="Encrypted">

      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add
          name="SqlProvider"
          type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider"
          connectionStringName="SqlServices"
          applicationName="MyApplication" />
         </providers>

    </roleManager>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

You can obtain a strongly typed reference to a provider from the Providers collection by indexing the role provider by name and casting it as the desired type.

You can obtain a reference to the default provider for an application using the Provider property.

Applies to

See also