Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition

Chapter 11: Configuring Identity Management

In the last chapter, we learned about how to add and customize the ASP.NET Core Identity UI to enable users to register, log in, and manage their profiles. Unfortunately, ASP.NET Core Identity doesn't provide identity management by default.

In this chapter, we are going to learn about how to manage ASP.NET Core Identity by using IdentityManager2 to create users and roles for your application.

We'll cover the following sections:

• Introducing IdentityManager2
• Setting up IdentityManager2

The topics of this chapter relate to the MVC layer of the ASP.NET Core architecture:

Figure 11.1 – ASP.NET Core ...