AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider::GetRolesForUser Method (String^)
Gets a list of the roles that a user is in.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Parameters
- username
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Type:
System::String^
The user to return a list of roles for.
Return Value
Type: array<System::String^>^A string array containing the names of all the roles that the specified user is in.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentNullException | username is null. |
| ArgumentException | username contains a comma. |
| 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 GetRolesForUser method is called by the Roles class to retrieve a list of a specified user's roles from the authorization-manager policy store specified in the ASP.NET application's configuration file (Web.config).
The following code example uses the GetRolesForUser method to retrieve a list of roles for a specified user and binds them to a System.Web.UI.WebControls::GridView control. For an example of a Web.config file that enables role management, see AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider.
Available since 2.0