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

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A. FreemanPro ASP.NET Core Identity https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6858-2_16

16. Creating a User Store

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

In this chapter, I add Identity to the example project and create a custom user store. In Part 1, I used the default user store that Microsoft provides, which uses Entity Framework Core to store user data in a relational database, and this is the store you should use in real projects.

The user store I create in this chapter stores its data in memory, which makes it easy to explain how user stores work without getting bogged down in how to serialize and persist the data. Table 16-1 puts the user store in context.

Table 16-1. ...