Simple role controlled menu system

NET 2.0 has the wonderfull user and role provider system, called Membership, which make login, access and role control quite simple. I used this feature in some occasions to full satisfaction. Drawback of the providers is that you either need to incorporate special user/role tables into your database, or write your own provider classes if you want to use your own user/role tables.

One feature I’m particulary fond of is the way the menu component adapts itselfs to the access rules you define for your users. In this post I’m going to explain how to set up a menu system which is controlled by roles without having to use the user/role providers.