[mil1234]

Hi to all,

what i am trying to do is that in site.master i do some code which helps me display the navigation menu only if user is logged in. I achieved this by doing

 <% if (Context.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated){ show menu........

i know want to add a little bit more to my authentication as besides checking if user is Authenticated(logged in), i check also with my table in sql server if user isAdmin(which is a field in my users table)...anyone have an idea on how i accomplish this?

i am using linq to sql and as i said i am trying to implement this into site.master.

Thanks rgd's....

[RudiVisser]

Have you considered using Roles within your application?

If you do, you will be able do a check that is somewhat simple like so:

if (HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole("Administrators")) {
   // Do whatever
}

[mil1234]

Hi,

it a good idea, but can i relate this to my users tbl (is Admin) field?

Thanks ..

[RudiVisser]

Well no, because you'd be setting up a more structured way of authenticating users for your application (Roles!).

If you need to check if they're an admin, you can simply add a helper that takes (for example) a username and performs a query to ascertain whether they have the isAdmin flag checked or not.

You could wrap this all in a helper class for Authentication, that performs the check for whether they're logged in or not and loads all relevant information as appropriate. From then on, you can simply call a method such as CurrentUser.IsAdministrator() to get a bool back as to whether they are both logged in and an administrator of the site.