AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider.GetUsersInRole Method (String)

 

Gets a list of users in the specified role.

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

Public Overrides Function GetUsersInRole (
	roleName As String
) As String()

Parameters

roleName
Type: System.String

The name of the role to get the list of users for.

Return Value

Type: System.String()

A string array containing the names of all the users who are members of the specified role.

Exception Condition
ArgumentNullException

roleName is null.

ArgumentException

roleName is an empty string.

-or-

roleName 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 GetUsersInRole method is called by the Roles class to retrieve the list of users associated with the specified role in the authorization-manager policy store specified in the ASP.NET application's configuration file (Web.config).

The GetUsersInRole method only returns user names that are directly contained in the authorization-manager role specified by the roleName parameter. The underlying authorization-manager API called by the GetUsersInRole method does not support group expansion, so users contained in nested NT groups, nested authorization-manager groups, and LDAP query groups will not be returned.

The following code example uses the GetUsersInRole method to get a list of the users in a particular role 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.


<%@ Page Language="VB" %>

<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.UI" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

  Dim rolesArray() As String
  Dim users As MembershipUserCollection
  Dim usersInRole() As String

  Public Sub Page_Load()

    Msg.Text = ""

    If Not IsPostBack Then
      ' Bind roles to ListBox.

      rolesArray = Roles.GetAllRoles()
      RolesListBox.DataSource = rolesArray
      RolesListBox.DataBind()

      ' Bind users to ListBox.

      users = Membership.GetAllUsers()
      UsersListBox.DataSource = users
      UsersListBox.DataBind()
    End If

    If Not RolesListBox.SelectedItem Is Nothing Then
      ' Show users in role. Bind user list to GridView.

      usersInRole = Roles.GetUsersInRole(RolesListBox.SelectedItem.Value)
      UsersInRoleGrid.DataSource = usersInRole
      UsersInRoleGrid.DataBind()
    End If

  End Sub


  Public Sub AddUsers_OnClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As EventArgs)

    ' Verify that a role is selected.

    If RolesListBox.SelectedItem Is Nothing Then
      Msg.Text = "Please select a role."
      Return
    End If


    ' Verify that at least one user is selected.

    If UsersListBox.SelectedItem Is Nothing Then
      Msg.Text = "Please select one or more users."
      Return
    End If


    ' Create list of users to be added to the selected role.

    Dim newusers(UsersListBox.GetSelectedIndices().Length - 1) As String

    For i As Integer = 0 To newusers.Length - 1
      newusers(i) = UsersListBox.Items(UsersListBox.GetSelectedIndices(i)).Value
    Next


    ' Add the users to the selected role.

    Try
      Roles.AddUsersToRole(newusers, RolesListBox.SelectedItem.Value)

      ' Re-bind users in role to GridView.

      usersInRole = Roles.GetUsersInRole(RolesListBox.SelectedItem.Value)
      UsersInRoleGrid.DataSource = usersInRole
      UsersInRoleGrid.DataBind()
    Catch e As Exception
      Msg.Text = e.Message
    End Try

  End Sub


  Public Sub UsersInRoleGrid_RemoveFromRole(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As GridViewCommandEventArgs)

    ' Get the selected user name to remove.

    Dim index As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(args.CommandArgument)

    Dim username As String = (CType(UsersInRoleGrid.Rows(index).Cells(0).Controls(0), DataBoundLiteralControl)).Text


    ' Remove the user from the selected role.

    Try
      Roles.RemoveUserFromRole(username, RolesListBox.SelectedItem.Value)
    Catch e As Exception
      Msg.Text = "An exception of type " & e.GetType().ToString() & _
                 " was encountered removing the user from the role."
    End Try

    ' Re-bind users in role to GridView.

    usersInRole = Roles.GetUsersInRole(RolesListBox.SelectedItem.Value)
    UsersInRoleGrid.DataSource = usersInRole
    UsersInRoleGrid.DataBind()

  End Sub



</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
  <title>Sample: Role Membership</title>
</head>
<body>
  <form runat="server" id="PageForm">
    <h3>
      Role Membership</h3>
    <asp:Label ID="Msg" ForeColor="maroon" runat="server" /><br />
    <table cellpadding="3" border="0">
      <tr>
        <td valign="top">
          Roles:</td>
        <td valign="top">
          <asp:ListBox ID="RolesListBox" runat="server" Rows="8" AutoPostBack="true" /></td>
        <td valign="top">
          Users:</td>
        <td valign="top">
          <asp:ListBox ID="UsersListBox" DataTextField="Username" Rows="8" SelectionMode="Multiple"
            runat="server" /></td>
        <td valign="top">
          <asp:Button Text="Add User(s) to Role" ID="AddUsersButton" runat="server" OnClick="AddUsers_OnClick" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top">
          Users In Role:</td>
        <td valign="top">
          <asp:GridView runat="server" CellPadding="4" ID="UsersInRoleGrid" AutoGenerateColumns="false"
            GridLines="None" CellSpacing="0" OnRowCommand="UsersInRoleGrid_RemoveFromRole">
            <HeaderStyle BackColor="navy" ForeColor="white" />
            <Columns>
              <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="User Name" >
                <ItemTemplate>
                  <%# Container.DataItem.ToString() %>
                </ItemTemplate>
              </asp:TemplateField>
              <asp:ButtonField Text="Remove From Role" ButtonType="Link" />
            </Columns>
          </asp:GridView>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </form>
</body>
</html>

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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