ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and makes it easy to customize data about the logged in user.
Introduction
This article explains us to how to add ASP.NET Identity to our ASP.NET Applications.ASP.NET Identity is a new membership system for ASP.NET.
It can be used with all of the ASP.NET frameworks such as ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, Web Pages, Web API and Signal R
Objective
The objective of this article is to explain the steps of adding ASP.NET Identity to our ASP.NET Applications
Let’s get started with ASP.NET Identity
- Step 1 Create a New Project Open visual studio 2013 -> click on File -> New Project -> Create new ASP.NET WebApplication -> Name it as Formsidentity.
- Step 2 Select Empty template and click on ok
Notice the Change Authentication button is disabled and no authentication support is provided in this template. The Web Forms, MVC and Web API templates allow you to select the authentication approach. For more information, see
Overview of Authentication.
- Step 3 Let’s add Identity Packages to our App
Right click on Project-->Select Manage Nuget Packages
After successful installation Let's add a simple Signup web form
- Step 4 Add the below HTML to the form
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Signup.aspx.cs" Inherits="Formsidentity.Signup" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small">
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<h4 style="font-size: medium">Sign Up Form</h4>
<hr />
<p>
<asp:Literal runat="server" ID="StatusMessage" />
</p>
<div style="margin-bottom:10px">
<asp:Label runat="server" AssociatedControlID="UserName">User name</asp:Label>
<div>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="UserName" />
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10px">
<asp:Label runat="server" AssociatedControlID="Password">Password</asp:Label>
<div>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="Password" TextMode="Password" />
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10px">
<asp:Label runat="server" AssociatedControlID="ConfirmPassword">Confirm password</asp:Label>
<div>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="ConfirmPassword" TextMode="Password" />
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<asp:Button runat="server" OnClick="CreateUser_Click" Text="Sign Up" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Open the Signup.aspx.cs file and replace the contents of the file with the following code:
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework;
using System;
using System.Linq;
namespace Formsidentity
{
public partial class Signup : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void CreateUser_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Default UserStore constructor uses the default connection string named: DefaultConnection
//The UserStore class is the default EntityFramework implementation of a user store. This class implements the ASP.NET Identity Core’s minimal interfaces: IUserStore, IUserLoginStore, IUserClaimStore and IUserRoleStore.
var userStore = new UserStore<IdentityUser>();
//The UserManager class exposes user related APIs which will automatically save changes to the UserStore.
var manager = new UserManager<IdentityUser>(userStore);
//The IdentityUser class is the default EntityFramework implementation of the IUser interface. IUser interface is the minimal interface for a user on ASP.NET Identity Core.
var user = new IdentityUser() { UserName = UserName.Text };
//The IdentityResult class represents the result of an identity operation.
IdentityResult result = manager.Create(user, Password.Text);
if (result.Succeeded)
{
StatusMessage.Text = string.Format("User {0} was created successfully!", user.UserName);
}
else
{
StatusMessage.Text = result.Errors.FirstOrDefault();
}
}
}
}- Step 5 Now Lets add App_Data
- Step 6 Open the Web.config file and add a connection string entry for the database which we will use to store user information. The database will be created at runtime by EntityFramework for the Identity entities.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
-->
<configuration>
<configSections>
<!-- For more information on Entity Framework configuration, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=237468 -->
<section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
</configSections>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDb)\v11.0;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\WebFormsIdentity.mdf;Initial Catalog=WebFormsIdentity;Integrated Security=True"
providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" />
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
</system.web>
<entityFramework>
<defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">
<parameters>
<parameter value="v11.0" />
</parameters>
</defaultConnectionFactory>
<providers>
<provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" />
</providers>
</entityFramework>
</configuration>
Debug the Application and we can have the following output