Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

Adding identity management entities to your data model

When working with user identities, your database and applications data model usually contain entities such as User, Roles, Claims, Tokens, and so on, so the first step will be to add the necessary entities to the application data model, but luckily we don't need to add them manually. Instead, the Microsoft.Extensions.Identity infrastructure defines base classes that we can use. Here are the steps that you need to perform to add all the identity-related entities to your application:

1. Create or modify the User entity in your application and make it derive from the IdentityUser class. Note that if you already have a User entity, you have to remove the primary key property because IdentityUser ...