Question

In my ASP.NET Web Application with C#, I used the Web Site Administration tool to create users and passwords.
I do some actions in the aspx file based on roles, e.g.:

<RoleGroups>
<asp:RoleGroup Roles="Administrators">

My question is: how can I reference the roles/users created as mentioned, within the code-behind (C#) file:

E.g. If role=Administrators, do this…

If user = admin/john/whatever, do this…

Thank you!
Anna

Answer 1

Try this

    if (Roles.IsUserInRole("Administrators"))
    {  
       // do something for administrator
    }

For Users, you can get a User like this to get the currently logged in user

    Dim userInfo As MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser( HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name)

and there is a whole bigger Membership API you can use to do what you like.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648345.aspx