Using ASP.Net Identity in MVC 4

Question

I've been reading about the new auth stuff in the upcoming versions of ASP.net: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/06/27/introducing-asp-net-identity-membership-system-for-asp-net-applications.aspx

I'm creating a new ASP.net MVC 4 project in visual studio 2012 and I'd like to use the new auth bits if I can. Is this possible?

I'm reading code and trying to wrap my head around this new API. But in the meantime, what steps are involved to get going?

Solution

It should be doable, first you basically want to install the 3 packages:

Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core
Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework
Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin

You would then need to pull in the associated Owin packages as well:

Owin
Microsoft.Owin
Microsoft.Owin.Security
Microsoft.Owin.Security.Cookies
Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb

And you would then need to hookup Owin with something like this:

using Microsoft.Owin;
using Owin;

[assembly: OwinStartupAttribute(typeof(WebApplication19.Startup))]
namespace WebApplication19
{
    public partial class Startup
    {
        public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
        {
                // Enable the application to use a cookie to store information for the signed in user
                app.UseCookieAuthentication(new CookieAuthenticationOptions
                {
                    AuthenticationType = DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie,
                    LoginPath = new PathString("/Account/Login")
                });
                // Use a cookie to temporarily store information about a user logging in with a third party login provider
                app.UseExternalSignInCookie(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie);
        }
    }
}

You will also have to remove/turn off all of the old membership/forms auth in your app, and switch to using the new identity APIs.

Comments

[Hao Kung]

No identity is 4.5 only due to async mostly

[Nezam]

does it work with a shared hosting server? Ref:zapone.org/barney/2015/01/09/…