How to configure Roles without an app.config?

Question

Can I configure Roles and Membership programmatically? Without an app.config (or web.config) ?

Answer 1

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5k850zwb.aspx

Roles.CreateRole("members");
Roles.CreateRole("manager");

Roles.AddUserToRole("JoeWorden", "manager");
string[] userGroup = new string[2];
userGroup[0] = "JillShrader";
userGroup[1] = "ShaiBassli";
Roles.AddUsersToRole(userGroup, "members");

Stick that in global.asax (application_start is probably your best bet) and Bob's your uncle.

Answer 2

It's kind of a hack, but here I configure Roles for Client Application Services:

ClientRoleProvider crp = new ClientRoleProvider();
// Initialize
NameValueCollection crp_config = new NameValueCollection();
crp_config.Add("serviceUri", "www.mydomain.com/Role_JSON_AppService.axd");
crp_config.Add("cacheTimeout", 5);
crp_config.Add("honorCookieExpiry", 300);
crp.Initialize("ClientRoleProvider", crp_config);

//RoleProviderCollection
RoleProviderCollection rpc = new RoleProviderCollection();
rpc.Add(crp);
rpc.SetReadOnly();

//Roles
BindingFlags enuBindingFlags = BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static;
Type objRoleType = typeof(Roles);
objRoleType.GetField("s_Initialized", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, true);
objRoleType.GetField("s_InitializeException", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, null);
objRoleType.GetField("s_Enabled", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, true);
objRoleType.GetField("s_CookieName", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, ".ASPXROLES");
objRoleType.GetField("s_CacheRolesInCookie", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, false);
objRoleType.GetField("s_CookieTimeout", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, (int)30);
objRoleType.GetField("s_CookiePath", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, "/");
objRoleType.GetField("s_CookieRequireSSL", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, false);
objRoleType.GetField("s_CookieSlidingExpiration", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, true);
objRoleType.GetField("s_CookieProtection", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, CookieProtection.All);
objRoleType.GetField("s_Domain", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, null);
objRoleType.GetField("s_CreatePersistentCookie", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, false);
objRoleType.GetField("s_MaxCachedResults", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, (int)25);
objRoleType.GetField("s_Provider", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, crp);
objRoleType.GetField("s_Providers", enuBindingFlags).SetValue(null, rpc);