Using Security Trimming
You might want to display different navigation links to different users, depending on their roles. For example, if a user is a member of the Administrators role, you might want to display links to pages for administrating the website. However, you might want to hide these links from other users.
To display different links to different users depending on their roles, you must enable a feature of Site Maps named Security Trimming. This feature is disabled by default. The web configuration file in Listing 23.8 enables Security Trimming.
Listing 23.8. Web.Config
The configuration file in Listing 23.8 includes a <siteMap> ...
Get ASP.NET 4 Unleashed now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
