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