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Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 Platform
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Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 Platform

by Adam Freeman
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
11h 21m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 13

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Getting Started with Identity

Identity is a new API from Microsoft to manage users in ASP.NET applications. The mainstay for user management in recent years has been ASP.NET Membership, which has suffered from design choices that were reasonable when it was introduced in 2005 but that have aged badly. The biggest limitation is that the schema used to store the data worked only with SQL Server and was difficult to extend without re-implementing a lot of provider classes. The schema itself was overly complex, which made it harder to implement changes than it should have been.

Microsoft made a couple of attempts to improve Membership ...

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