MVC Role Authorization

Question

I am trying to implement a role authorization mechanism which checks the roles of the current logged in user, if the user is in the right role, he/she is allowed, else display e

Answer 1

If you're using MVC 5 you have to enable lazy loading in your DbContext by putting the following line in your DbContext initialisation.

this.Configuration.LazyLoadingEnabled = true;

In MVC 5 default project you'll add it to ApplicationDbContext.cs file.

I'm not sure if this is particular to MVC 5, to Identity 2.0, or affect other versions. I'm using this setup and enabling lazy loading make all the default role schema works. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/20433316/2401947 for more info.

Additionally, if you're using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 default permission schema, you don't have to implement Application_AuthenticateRequest as Darren mentioned. But if you're using custom authorisation tables, then you have to implement it as well.