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Programming ASP.NET 3.5, 4th Edition
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Programming ASP.NET 3.5, 4th Edition

by Dan Maharry, Dan Hurwitz, Jesse Liberty
October 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1166 pages
28h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Filtering Based on Security

In Chapter 12, we covered the creation of login accounts and roles. In the next example, we’ll use that information combined with the navigation tools we’ve also already covered to make aspects of the navigation aids visible and accessible to users in specific roles.

Accessing the current node’s properties

Figure 13-26. Accessing the current node’s properties

To get started, copy the C12_Security website folder and all its contents to a new folder called C13_SecureNavigation, and then open that website in VS2008. To recap, in the preceding chapter, this website demonstrated the creation of user accounts and user roles and then used both code-behind files in individual pages and the web.config file to restrict access to pages and directories based on either the user identity or the role in which the user was grouped.

Table 13-4 lists the users and roles set up in the membership database for C12_Security. You may have created others, but for the purposes of this chapter, this is what will be assumed. Feel free to follow along using the users and roles you created, or use the download.

Table 13-4. Users and roles defined for C13_SecureNavigation

User ID

Password

Role

Dan

Dan@123

Admins, Member

Jane

Jane@123

 

Jesse

Jesse@123

Member

Two pages have access restricted to them: one by user ID (Restricted.aspx) and the other by role (RoleRestricted.aspx). You should also create two new folders within the site, one called ...

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