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

Create a partial view and return the view from the controller:

LayoutViewModel.cs:

public class LayoutViewModel
{   ...
    public bool ShowAdmin { get; set; }
}

LayoutController.cs:

public PartialViewResult GetAdminMenu()
    {
        LayoutViewModel model = new LayoutViewModel();            

        model.ShowAdmin = userHasPermission("Admin"); // change the code here

        return PartialView("_AdminMenu", model);
    }

_AdminMenu.cshtml (partial view):

@model DelegatePortal.ViewModels.LayoutViewModel


@if (@Model.ShowAdmin)
{
   
}

_Layout.csthml (main view):

...
              @Html.Action("GetAdminMenu", "Layout")