ASP.NET MVC - Alternative to Role Provider?

Question

I\'m trying to avoid the use of the Role Provider and Membership Provider since its way too clumsy in my opinion, and therefore I\'m trying to making my own \"version\" whic

Answer 1

You don't need to use a static class for roles. For instance, the SqlRoleProvider allows you to define the roles in a database.

Of course, if you want to retrieve roles from your own service layer, it's not that hard to create your own role provider - there really aren't that many methods to implement.