Implementing authentication using ASP.NET Core Identity and customizing the Identity data store

In this section, we will implement ASP.NET Core Identity in an ASP.NET Core MVC application. This section will cover all the details on configuring the Identity and adding functionality to register, log in and log out, and modify the default data store to save some other information of the user and implement authorization in a simple web application that does not have a service layer in terms of a Web API.

The ASP.NET Core application can be created either through Visual Studio 2015 or a greater version, or it can also be created using the .NET CLI or Yeoman command-line tools. When creating an ASP.NET Core web application, you have a choice to ...

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