Pro ASP.NET Core Identity: Under the Hood with Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core 5 and 6 Applications

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13. Creating the Example Project

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

In Part 1, I focused on explaining how to use Identity. In this part of the book, I explain how Identity works, revisiting the major features and describing what happens behind the scenes. I create custom user role stores, use custom user and role classes, and implement many of the interfaces that ASP.NET Core Identity uses.

In this chapter, I create a simple example project that is used in the chapters that follow. I use this project to explain how ASP.NET Core approaches authentication and authorization and how Identity ...