user.Roles.FirstOrDefault() returns DynamicProxy - asp.net

Question

OK...
I was finally making some headway with creating a User Management page using Identity 2 in Web Forms.
It was mostly moving along just fine. When suddenly I run into this issue, and it makes no sense to me.
I have an AS form with a dropdown list of Roles. That list is populated using
roleMgr.Roles.ToList();
Works Great
I use the user being edited Role to set the current selected value.
ddlUserType.SelectedValue = user.Roles.FirstOrDefault().ToString();
This WAS working like dynamite
Last week...
Now all of a sudden user.Roles.FirstOrDefault().ToString(); is returning
"System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies.IdentityUserRole_FDDE5D267CF62D86904A3BC925D70DC410F12D5BE8313308EC89AC8537DC6375"
What he heck, man?
So I tried user.Roles.Take(1).ToString();
That returns
"System.Linq.Enumerable+d__24`1[Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.IdentityUserRole]"
I have to presume I Broke, Something...
But What?
Nothing in this code page changed at all between when it worked and then didn't.
The only thing I did related to Identity at all was Migrate a couple of fields into AspNetUsers (another whole ballgame, migrations...) which also worked like dynamite BTW.
I even went to the extreme of wiping out my Migrations and AspNet user tables entirely, and re-initializing it all.
Any suggestions ?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework;
using Sperry_Parts.Models;
using Sperry_Parts.Logic;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin;
using Owin;
namespace Parts.Admin
{
public partial class CreateEditUser : System.Web.UI.Page
{
private bool NewUser
{
get { return ViewState["NewUser"] != null ? (bool)ViewState["NewUser"] : false; }
set { ViewState["NewUser"] = value; }
}
private string EditUser
{
get { return (string)ViewState["EditUser"]; }
set { ViewState["EditUser"] = value; }
}
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
EditUser = Session["Edit_User"].ToString();
// Access the application context and create result variables.
Models.ApplicationDbContext context = new ApplicationDbContext();
RoleActions roleAction = new RoleActions();
// Create a RoleStore object by using the ApplicationDbContext object.
var roleStore = new RoleStore<IdentityRole>(context);
// Create a RoleManager object that is only allowed to contain IdentityRole objects.
var roleMgr = new RoleManager<IdentityRole>(roleStore);
// Load the DDL of Roles
var roles = roleMgr.Roles.ToList();
ddlUserType.DataTextField = "Name";
ddlUserType.DataValueField = "Id";
ddlUserType.DataSource = roles;
ddlUserType.DataBind();
if (EditUser == "")
{
txtUserName.Enabled = true;
txtUserName.Focus();
NewUser = true;
} // End New User
else
{
// User part
var userMgr = Context.GetOwinContext().GetUserManager<ApplicationUserManager>();
var signinManager = Context.GetOwinContext().GetUserManager<ApplicationSignInManager>();
txtUserName.Enabled = false;
txtFullName.Focus();
var user = userMgr.FindByName(EditUser);
if (user != null)
{
txtUserName.Text = user.UserName;
txtUserEmail.Text = user.Email;
txtFullName.Text = user.FullName;
var hisroles = user.Roles.ToList(); // properly returns 1 item
// this is where it went off the rails - these 4 lines are debugging code
string xrole = user.Roles.FirstOrDefault().ToString();
string role2 = user.Roles.Take(1).ToString();
string trythis = xrole.ToString();
string trythis2 = role2.ToString();
// I swear, this worked last week...
ddlUserType.SelectedValue = user.Roles.FirstOrDefault().ToString();
}
} // End Editing User
} // End if (!IsPostBack)
} // End Page Load
protected void CreateUser()
{
// removed as non-relevant to question
} // End CreateUser
protected void UpdateUser()
{
// removed as non-relevant to question
} // End UpdateUser
protected void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// removed as non-relevant to question
} // End btnSave
protected void btnCancel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Redirect("~/ManageUsers");
} // End btnCancel
} // End Class CreateEditUser
}

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem trying to set the value of a "Roles" DropDownList inside a GridView Control. I solved it by using:
user.Roles.First().RoleId
It just happens that my RoleId is also my role name.