get current user's role

Question

Is there any way to get the explicit role that a user belongs to in my controller? This assumes using ASP.NET Membership and Role Providers. \"IsInRole\" doesn\'t work - I n

Answer 1

Simplemembership in MVC4:

Getting the User's role-

var role = System.Web.Security.Roles.GetRolesForUser().Single();

To check if the user belongs to a certain role-

if (User.IsInRole("External"))