Hi. As a COBOL developer, I think I can give a little insight into this. I have been developing in COBOL since 1989. Alongside COBOL, you get CICS/DB2/JCL etc. which if you research, you will this is far more advanced than most people think (and has been for many years). For example; ASP.Net & HTTP are purely a reinvention this technology - it has been around for a long time (CICS). I also code websites but the first choice is still mainframe/Cobol/CICS/DB2 – that’s where the most money is. You might see pretty GUI frontend to many online banks – but ever wondered what actually runs in the background and processes all your transactions? Its not all about the language - its also about what this actually does and if you are processing millions of transactions on a daily basis – nothing can come close to the processing power of a Mainframe combined with the structuring of Cobol/CICS/DB2 applications. Just knowing COBOL doesn’t get you anywhere - but if you have a few years experience with Cobol/CICS/DB2/JCL – your at a good starting point but then you need specialist knowledge into applications which are written in these languages. p.s. nearly every transaction make using your visa or mastercard / book a train ticket / take money out of an ATM / book an airline ticket (and so on..); your data will go through a COBOL program.

Using Visual Studio 2005, .Net 2.0 I did the following:- Enables roles> in web.config, the following appeared> this is my authentication part: I then created 4 roles: Consultant, Team Leader, Project Leader, Administrator. and assigned each user one or more roles. When I check within code, user.isinrole("Adminstrator") = this works fine. I have a custom sitemap files, in web.config:- In "MainMenu.sitemap" I assigned roles, here is a snippet: but, all uses still see this menu item despite having the roles parameter. Any help would be appreciated.