Question

I have a custom RoleProvider that I’m using, and I’ve found that cacheRolesInCookie isn’t working. After reading, this is expected behavior. However, I would like to override this and handle the cacheing on my own. My problem is that I can’t figure out how to read the value from the configuration file to determine if the cacheing should occur or not. Here is my config settings…

<roleManager defaultProvider="MyRoleProvider" cacheRolesInCookie="true" enabled="true">
  <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add name="MyRoleProvider" 
         type="MyCompany.WebSecurity.MyRoleProvider" 
         connectionStringName="Security" 
         applicationName="TestSite" />
  </providers>
</roleManager>

I read the provider settings using this code:

var membershipSection = (MembershipSection)WebConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.web/membership");
var defaultProvider = membershipSection.DefaultProvider;
var providerSettings = membershipSection.Providers[defaultProvider];

var connStringName = providerSettings.Parameters["connectionStringName"];

How can I get the value of the attribute cacheRolesInCookie?

Thanks,

Answer 1

I found my problem. I was casting my config section to the wrong type. HEre is what I have done now.

var roleManagerSection = (RoleManagerSection)WebConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.web/roleManager");

var cacheRolesInCookie = roleManagerSection.CacheRolesInCookie;