membership provider with hardcoded users and roles

Question

I have fully working custom membership provider with implemented many features. Now this is ok for serious applications, but I'm wonder how can I implement membership provider, with hardcoded usernames and corresponding roles, for example

• userOne = Admin access
• userTwo = Limited access
• userThree = read only

I do not need any crud operations, maybe edit password later, but now it's not important, cause I want to find a way around fully membership provider, in this situation it's overengineered solution.

Any links, ideas, code examples are welcomed.

Thanks

Answer 1

Why would you want to do that?

Anyway, you Dictionary to do so.

Here's an example.

Dictionary<string, string> dic = new Dictionary<string, string>();
dic.Add("userOne", "Admin access");

string access = string.Empty;
dic.TryGetValue("userOne", out access);

You can call dic.Add() as many times as you want. You can even pull data from text file using FileSystem or from Database. You can also pass a variable with TryGetValue .

string username = txtUserName.Text;
dic.TryGetValue(username, out access);