How to get all the permission levels in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will be seeing how to get all the permission levels in SharePoint 2010 using C# and powershell script.

In this article

How to get all the permission levels using C#
How to get all the permission levels using powershell script
Properties of SPRoleDefinition

Steps involved:

Open Visual Studio 2010.
Create a console application.
Add the following reference.

o Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
Add the following namespace.

o Using Microsoft.SharePoint;

How to get all the permission levels using C#:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace CustomPermissionLevel
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:2020/"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)
{
SPRoleDefinitionCollection roleColl = web.RoleDefinitions;
foreach (SPRoleDefinition role in roleColl)
{
Console.WriteLine(role.Name.ToString());
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
}
}

How to get all the permission levels using powershell script

$site=Get-SPSite "http://servername:2020/"
$web=$site.RootWeb
$roleColl=$web.RoleDefinitions
foreach($role in $roleColl)
{
write-host $role.Name
}
Properties of SPRoleDefinition:

$site=Get-SPSite "http://servername:2020/"
$web=$site.RootWeb
$roleColl=$web.RoleDefinitions
$role= $roleColl["Custom Permission Level Test"]
Write-host $role