Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition

Chapter 10: Customizing ASP.NET Core Identity

In this tenth chapter, we are going to learn how to customize ASP.NET Core Identity. Security is one of the most important aspects of an application. Microsoft ships ASP.NET Core Identity as part of the ASP.NET Core framework to add authentication and user management to ASP.NET Core applications.

In this chapter, you will learn how to customize the basic implementation of the ASP.NET Core Identity UI and how to add custom information to IdentityUser. We'll cover the following points:

• Introducing ASP.Net Core Identity
• Customizing IdentityUser
• Customizing the Identity views

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

Figure 10.1 – ASP.NET Core architecture ...