A role is a group of users who are uniqely identified by the set of privileges they are given. A typical website has three roles:

• Administrator
• Power User
• User

An administrator has all privileges over the particular site while power user and ordinary users don't have.

Creation of Roles

Roles can be created in various ways. The typical process of role creation involves using the Role Manager tag in Web.config

Example

Roles can also be assigned or modified programmatically using the Role class.

Using the Website Administration Tool

Roles can be created in .NET 2.0 using the ASP.NET Website Administration tool. This tool is available in the Solution Explorer toolbar.

The tool allows the user to change

• Security settings
• Application Configuration
• Provider Configuration

A few snapshots of the tool are availabe below. These snapshots are self-explanatory:

References

Role Class in C#, MSDN site

Advanced ASP.NET Topics

• Membership
• Roles
• Profiles
• Role-Based Security
• Cryptography
• Templating
• Database
• Data Access Layer and Business Logic Layer

A Quick ASP.Net Summary

• Web Server Controls
• User Controls
• Custom Control
• Data Grid, Grid View (ASP.NET 2.0)
• Array, Collections
• Interoperability in referring any unmanaged assemblies into your Web Site
• AJAX & ASP.NET AJAX (Asynchronous Page development)