Hide controls based on ad group membership

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I am trying to make controls visible\hidden based on AD group membership.

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I'm fairly new to development. I am building a webforms project in C#, using studio 2015, and .net 4.5. The project uses windows authentication. I have found a way to show\hide controls based on username, which I capture using: System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name.Split('\\'). I am looking for a way to check for group membership rather than having to change code to change user permissions on controls.

.....for example, lets say that user "bobr" is in "lab users" AD group, I want to make Panel1 visible.

Posted 10-Feb-16 3:36am

martyres72

Updated 10-Feb-16 4:42am

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Solution 4

Thanks for the response, but I was actually looking for help, not a search term. I found answer myself. For anyone looking to do this same thing, the following in the code-behind worked perfectly:

if (User.IsInRole(@"domainname\groupname"))
{
do something;
}

Posted 11-Feb-16 8:51am

martyres72

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Dave Kreskowiak 11-Feb-16 16:17pm

What do you think the search term was for? I'd rather teach you how to find the answers yourself than just spoon feed them to you.

You get the answers a lot faster than from a forum and you will probably learn something else along the way.

Without this skill you're going to fail as a software developer.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-10T04:54:00

Solution 2

You're definitely not the first person to want to do this. You could have easily found the answer yourself with a little research effort. Google for "asp.net show controls if user is an administrator[^]".

Posted 10-Feb-16 4:54am

Dave Kreskowiak