Question

How can I “Enable/Disable Roles” or “Create or Manage Roles” without ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool? I am able to create user/manage user/enable user etc for my MVC3 web application using this tool. However, I would like to give this tool to the Admins to “Create/Manage roles” and they do not have Visual Studio installed on their workstations.

Answer 1

You have easy access to the Roles from inside your controllers:

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

Roles.AddUserToRole(userName, "Guest");

So if you just create a Controller and a couple of Action+View’s then you can make your own tool.

And of course you will want to restrict access:

[Authorize(Roles = "Admin, Super User")]
public class RolesController : Controller
{
}