Visual Guard Class Library Documentation

VGRoles.GetRolesForUser Method (String, VGAuthenticationMode)

Gets a list of the roles that a user is in.

public static string[] GetRolesForUser(
   String username,
   VGAuthenticationMode mode
);

Parameters

username
The user to return a list of roles for.
mode
the mode of authentication of the user.

Return Value

A string array containing the names of all the roles that the specified user is in.

Exceptions

Exception Type Condition
ArgumentException username is empty or longer than 64 characters or contains invalid chars ('\', '/', '?', '*', '%', ';', ''', '"', ':', '|', '[', ']', '+', '=', ',') for Visual Guard account.

-or-

username cannot be converted to SID for Windows Account.

-or-

mode is not equal to Windows or VisualGuard or Database or is a combination of several values.
ArgumentNullException username is null.
SecurityException The current user has not enough privileges to use Membership API. The Membership access level of the application must be sufficient to allows this action or the 'Membership Manager' role must be granted to the user by using the Visual Guard console.

See Also

VGRoles Class | Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Membership Namespace | VGRoles.GetRolesForUser Overload List