ASP.Net MVC Hide/Show Menu Items Based On Security

Question

I\'m working on an ASP.Net MVC 3 site. The _Layout master view contains a menu and I want to hide some of the items in the menu based on if you are logged in and what roles you

Answer 1

Here is what I ended up doing. I created a helper class called MenuSecurity with static boolean properties for each menu item showing which items should be visible. Each property looked like this

public static bool DashboardVisible
{
   get 
   { 
      return 
         HttpContext.Current.User != null && 
         HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated; 
   }
}

I then tidied up my menu partial view to look like this

@if (MenuSecurity.ReportsVisible){
@Html.ActionLink("Reports", "Index", "Reports")
}
@if (MenuSecurity.DashboardVisible){
@Html.ActionLink("Dashboard", "Dashboard", "Admin")
}
@if (MenuSecurity.AdminVisible){
@Html.ActionLink("Admin", "Index", "Admin")
}