User.IsInRole doesn't work

Question

I have ASP.NET MVC 4 application. I use Simple Membership Provider allowing to tick remember me checkbox under login form. If ticked, persitent cookie .ASPXAUTH is created w

Answer 1

I had a similar issue, seems like authentication module is not wired up completely with the SimpleMembershipProvider. To get around that problem, you can use a Role class to access needed information. For example to check if the use in role you can use the following:

Roles.GetRolesForUser("sergey").Contains("Developer")

And so other useful methods when working wit SimpleMembershipProvider roles:

   Roles.RoleExists("Developer")
   Roles.CreateRole("Developer");
   Roles.AddUserToRole("sergey", "Developer");

Answer 2

Quite old topic but can confirm in vs 2015 Web forms application works solution:

<modules>
    <remove name="FormsAuthenticationModule" />
    <remove name="RoleManager" /> <!--add this to web config-->
</modules>

Answer 3

For my code it had to be plural, not singular:

User.IsInRole("Administrators")

Answer 4

I had a similar problem with IsUserInRole returning false. By placing a watch on it, I was able to overcome the problem by using the overload described below. Try it, put a break point where you're getting false, and see what happens.

@if (Roles.IsUserInRole(Model.UserName, "Administrator"))

I'm pretty sure you could also use User.Identity.Name as the first parameter.