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RoleService.SelectingProvider Event

Occurs when a RoleService instance determines which role provider to use for checking the user's roles.

Namespace:  System.Web.ApplicationServices
Assembly:  System.Web.Extensions (in System.Web.Extensions.dll)

'Declaration
Public Shared Event SelectingProvider As EventHandler(Of SelectingProviderEventArgs)
'Usage
Dim handler As EventHandler(Of SelectingProviderEventArgs)

AddHandler RoleService.SelectingProvider, handler

The RoleService class raises the SelectingProvider event when it determines which role provider to use in order to retrieve the user's roles. You can create an event handler for the SelectingProvider event to select at run time which role provider to use.

The following example shows how to bind an event handler to the SelectingProvider event in the Global.asax file. The event handler determines at run time which role provider to use, based on the user name.

Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    AddHandler System.Web.ApplicationServices.RoleService.SelectingProvider, _
        AddressOf Me.RoleService_SelectingProvider
End Sub 

Sub RoleService_SelectingProvider _
(ByVal sender As Object, _
 ByVal e As System.Web.ApplicationServices.SelectingProviderEventArgs)

    If (e.User.Identity.Name.IndexOf("@example.com") > 0) Then
        e.ProviderName = "EmployeeRoleProvider" 
    Else
        e.ProviderName = "CustomerRoleProvider" 
    End If 
End Sub

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5
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