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

if you want to get the role name of any user, then simply use following two functions in the controller you want to perform action .

public ApplicationSignInManager SignInManager
        {
            get { return _signInManager ?? HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Get(); }
            private set { _signInManager = value; }
        }

        public ApplicationUserManager UserManager
        {
            get { return _userManager ?? HttpContext.GetOwinContext().GetUserManager(); }
            private set { _userManager = value; }
        }

and then in the action , use the following line .

var role = UserManager.GetRoles(UserId);

note that here UserId is the id of ApplicationUser.

this role will be IList

if your application logic is such that a user can be in only one role then you can access it by

string roleName = role[0];