Question

My user object has the property: IsAdministrator

Now I want to inject HTML on every page, so in my master page, only if the user is an administrator.

What is the best way to do this?

I was thinking of creating a user control, and then calling RenderPartial.

But I need to access the Request object to see if the user is authenticated, and if they are, to grab the user object from the cache and then check the IsAdminstrator property.

Help?

Answer 1

1. You create a basecustomviewmodel with a property called IsAdministrator.
2. You overload the function OnActionExecuted in a base controller from which the other controller will inherits. Overload that will set IsAdministrator in function of the request.
3. For each actionresult you pass a customviewmodel inheriting the basecustomviewmodel of 1)
4. You create a partialview that will be passed in the master that take a basecustomviewmodel as model
5. enjoy