ASP.NET FormsAuthentication and membership

Question

I can use forms authentication in ASP.NET without membership. i.e:

FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(usuario.UsuDs, false);//usuario.UsuDS is the textbox  username in login's form

Then i can write code like:

     [Authorize(User="UserTest")]
        public ActionResult Criar(Usuarios usuario)
        {
            try
            {
                ...
            }
                ...
}

And it only authorize "UserTest" user in especific views. However,i would like to write:

     [Authorize(Roles="Admin")]
        public ActionResult Criar(Usuarios usuario)
        {
            try
            {
                ...
            }
                ...
}

But i cant set roles without Membership.

Any ideias to set and get roles from ASP.NET without membership?

Answer 1

You can certainly use roles without Membership. In fact, prior to ASP.NET 2.0 we didn't have Membership at all, garsh darnit, and we liked it that way!! ;-)

Here's an article that shows how to implement roles without Membership: Role-Based Authorization With Forms Authentication. In a nutshell, you have to write some code that assigns the roles to the user once they're authenticated.

Happy Programming!