Question

Shouldn’t the IsInRole check above return true? The method signature is

bool IsInRole(string role);

Could someone give brief explanation why here it is returning false? It seems like something obvious however can’t seem to point out.

Answer 1

It looks like the role is stored in the user data portion of the authentication cookie. But the IsInRole method doesn’t look in it when checking for roles unless you tell it to do so. You may take a look at the following answer for an example of how to do so (in this example I have assumed that the roles are stored in the user data portion of the authentication cookie and separated by a | => this is done when the user logs in).