Assigning Roles with MVC SimpleMembership

asp.net-membership, asp.net-mvc-3, c#, membership-provider

Solution

You need to use the Roles API to interact with the Roles. Something like the following should work:

if (!Roles.RoleExists("Administrator"))
    Roles.CreateRole("Administrator");

if (!Roles.GetRolesForUser(model.UserName).Contains("Administrator"))
    Roles.AddUsersToRole(new[] { model.UserName }, "Administrator");

Problem

I am trying out "SimpleMembership" in MVC3 via Nuget and have downloaded the sample to play with. The issue is that I cannot figure out how I would assign a role to a particular user. In the standard MVC membership you can just use something like: ``` Roles.AddUserToRole(model.UserName, "StandardUser"); ``` However, SimpleMembership only seems to have one method for roles exposed (unless Im being stupid!) which is ``` public void RequireRoles(params string[] roles) { WebSecurity.RequireRoles(roles); } ``` There must be an easy way as the following table was created as part of this nuget package: ``` -TABLE: webpages_Roles RoleId , RoleName ``` This is slightly confusing though as in `App_Start/SimpleMembershipMvc3.cs` there is the following: ``` Roles.Enabled = true; RoleProvider provider3 = Roles.Providers["AspNetSqlRoleProvider"]; if (provider3 != null) { RoleProvider provider6 = provider3; SimpleRoleProvider provider4 = CreateDefaultSimpleRoleProvider("AspNetSqlRoleProvider", provider6); Roles.Providers.Remove("AspNetSqlRoleProvider"); Roles.Providers.Add(provider4); } ``` SimpleRoleProvider function ``` private static SimpleRoleProvider CreateDefaultSimpleRoleProvider(string name, RoleProvider currentDefault) { RoleProvider previousProvider = currentDefault; SimpleRoleProvider provider = new SimpleRoleProvider(previousProvider); NameValueCollection config = new NameValueCollection(); provider.Initialize(name, config); return provider; } ``` Does this package use the built in Role provider? If so, how does it hook up with the tables created by SimpleMembership - Simple Membership GIT - Nuget package - Nuget Package for sample

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