How to check whether a SharePoint user is in a particular group
Here’s a quick function I wrote to check whether a user is a member of a particular SharePoint group:
private bool IsMemberOf(string groupName)
{
SPUser user = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser;
try
{
if (user.Groups[groupName] != null)
return true;
else
return false;
}
catch
{
return false;
}
}
The try-catch is required as – somewhat counter-intuitively – SharePoint seems to throw a “Group not found” error if the user is not a member of the group.
