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    <p><strong>General advice about roles</strong></p> <p>The way I have done this is to create a custom principal and to store the extra required information in there. In your example, this would at least include the roles for the user. <em>That way you avoid making lots of extra trips to the user store (which is likely a SQL database).</em></p> <p>Have a look a this question of mine in which I give the code which I am using successfully: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8263845/is-this-custom-principal-in-base-controller-asp-net-mvc-3-terribly-inefficient">Is this Custom Principal in Base Controller ASP.NET MVC 3 terribly inefficient?</a></p> <p>Note that I am storing the custom principal in the cache rather than in the session (just being paranoid about session hijacking). </p> <p>I like this approach as it is very extensible. For example, I have since extended this to expose Facebook credentials for when the user logs in via Facebook.</p> <p>Just remember that if you are caching data you need to remember to update it when it changes!</p> <p><strong>Answer to your question</strong></p> <p>Just to add, in your specific case, you should probably store this extra information in a <code>ViewModel</code> and then your view would say things like:</p> <pre><code>@if(ShowReports) { &lt;li id="ReportTab"&gt;@Html.ActionLink("Reports", "Index", "Reports")&lt;/li&gt; } @if(ShowDashboard) { &lt;li id="DashboardTab"&gt;@Html.ActionLink("Dashboard", "Dashboard", "Admin")&lt;/li&gt; } @if(ShowAdmin { &lt;li id="AdminTab"&gt;@Html.ActionLink("Admin", "Index", "Admin")&lt;/li&gt; } </code></pre> <p>with the ViewModel Code saying something like: </p> <pre><code>public bool ShowReports {get;set;} public bool ShowDashboard {get;set;} public bool ShowAdmin {get;set;} public void SetViewModel() { if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) { if (HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole("Reporters")) { ShowReports = true; } if (HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole("Administrators")) { ShowDashboard = true; ShowAdmin = true; } } } </code></pre> <p>I actually tend to take this one step further and create a <code>ReportsLink</code> in my <code>ViewModel</code> and set it to contain the link if the user is authorised or to be an empty string if they are not. Then the view just says:</p> <pre><code>@Model.ReportsLink @Model.DashboardLink @Model.AdminLink </code></pre> <p>In that case the pertinent part of the ViewModel might be like this:</p> <pre><code>ReportLink = new MvcHtmlString(HtmlHelper.GenerateLink(HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext, System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes, "linktext", "routename", "actionname", "controllername", null, null)); </code></pre>
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