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AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider::GetAllRoles Method

Gets a list of all the roles for the application.

Namespace:  System.Web.Security
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

public:
virtual array<String^>^ GetAllRoles() override

Return Value

Type: array<System::String>
A string array containing the names of all the roles stored in the authorization-manager policy store for a particular application.

ExceptionCondition
ProviderException

The configured applicationName was not found.

-or-

The configured scopeName was not found.

-or-

The authorization-manager runtime is not installed on the server.

FileNotFoundException

The connectionStringName attribute references a connection string to a file that does not exist.

HttpException

The AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider instance is configured with a file-based policy store, and read access to the file is not allowed at the current trust level.

The GetAllRoles method is called by the Roles class to retrieve a list of all the roles in the authorization-manager policy store specified in the ASP.NET application's configuration file (Web.config).

The following code example uses the GetAllRoles method to get the list of roles for an application and bind the results to a System.Web.UI.WebControls::GridView control. For an example of a Web.config file that enables role management, see AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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