I've read a few generic tidbits that Microsoft has been passing out like treats for a dog but I don't see anything that explains the purpose/reasoning/design philosophy for why this namespace was created, whether or not I should migrate to using it immediately versus the old System.Web.Security.Membership namespace, whether the old namespace has any potential for being deprecated.
I like treats but where is the main course for this new namespace. Can somebody post some links to some blogs that explain things like the pros/cons of the old and new Membership systems? I am taking a wild guess here and thinking that the new Microsoft.AspNet.Identity namespace was created primarily to allow external logins to be possible. But I thought that was already possible using OpenAuth or some other such stuff. I don't have much experience in exploring external login namespaces. I've always used the "Indvidual User Account" .MDF database system.
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