Question

I have a requirement for multiple Role Providers per website. What I’m not seeing is if/how to tell ASP.Net which provider to use (similar to the membership provider property on the login controls). I have a feeling that since this is done (I beleive) in an HTTP Module the role check may be occuring before the page life cycle ever begins – but I’m hoping someone gives me a different answer.

If I want to have multiple providers per website am I going to have to junk the configuration in web.config and perform the checks manually?

Answer 1

The Providers property references all the role providers enabled for an application. You can control which provider you wish to use at runtime like this:

RoleProvider provider = Roles.Providers['MyRoleProvider'];