Walkthrough: Determine Whether a User Is Authorized to Perform a Task

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This walkthrough demonstrates how to use the Security Application Block to determine whether a user is authorized to perform a particular task.

To reproduce the demonstration

1. Create a GenericPrincipal object representing the user and role information by adding the following code.
2. Perform the authorization check by adding the following code.