ASP.NET Core Identity Series

Part 1 - Getting Started

• Introduction to ASP.NET Core Identity library
• Describe ASP.NET Core Identity basic archirecture
• Explain the role and relationship between Stores and Managers and how they function under the hood
• Explain what Claims, ClaimsIdentity and ClaimsPrincipal entities are and how they are related
• Step by step guide on how to install and start using the core packages
• Associated repository branch: getting-started

Part 2 - Integrate Entity Framework

• Introduce Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Stores and UserStoreBase store implementations
• Plug and configure Entity Framework Core with ASP.NET Core Identity and minimum configuration
• Explain Entity Framework different store implementations such as UserOnlyStore or UserStore
• Step by step guide for applying migrations and creating Identity's SQL Schema
• Discuss whether you should use ASP.NET Core Identity with Entity Framework
• Associated repository branch: entity-framework-integration

Installation instructions

The project is built with ASP.NET Core with Angular on the client side.

1. Visual Studio 2017: Just open the solution and wait to install the npm packages before running
2. Without Visual Studio:
   • cd ./AspNetCoreIdentity where the package.json file exist
   • npm install
   • dotnet restore
   • dotnet build
   • dotnet run
3. Create the database (required for second part and later)
   • cd ./AspNetCoreIdentity where the AspNetCoreIdentity.csproj exist
   • dotnet ef migrations add initial_migration
   • dotnet ef database update

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License

Code released under the MIT license.