Managing Authorization Using Roles

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Managing Authorization Using Roles

ASP.NET role management helps you to manage authorization, allowing you to specify which resources various users in your application are allowed to access. Role management lets you group users by assigning them to roles.

In This Section

Understanding Role Management: Describes the role-management feature and how to use it in an application.
Role Management Classes: Describes the classes that comprise the role-management feature.
Role Management Providers: Discusses the providers and data sources available for the role-management feature.
Securing Roles: Discusses security issues to consider when using the role-management feature.
Implementing a Role Provider: Discusses how to create a custom role provider and includes a sample provider implementation.

Reference

System.Web.Security: Describes the classes you need for ASP.NET security features.

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