How to enable Role Manager with SimpleMembership on ASP.NET MVC 4

Question

I\'m wondering how to use the Role Manager feature with the SimpleMembership system included in ASP.NET MVC 4, specifically how to build a controller that manages a

Answer 1

Well, I am no expert on ASP.NET MVC4 but as a task I have set for myself, I wanted to create Role Based site access.

ASP.NET MVC4 is an excellent resource! I do have complaints about the lack of information and difficulty to implement Roles in MVC4.

To achieve the task one can implement SimpleMembership and SimpleRoles. See the below links:

1. Using SimpleMembership With ASP.NET WebPages by Matthew M. Osborn
2. SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates by Jon Galloway

The above two links explain a lot and have some very basic code examples but unfortunately the solution download is not available in the first URL.

In addition to the above:

1. Customize the SimpleMembership in ASP.NET MVC 4.0 by thangchung
2. ASP.NET MVC 4 Sample on MSDN

This last article goes into a much better detail and also gives source code to peruse.