I have seen lots of similar pages on the web, but most of them use a new project instead of an existing one, or don’t have the necessary features. So, I have an existing MVC 5 project and want to integrate ASP.NET MVC5 Identity with log in, email confirmation and password reset features. In addition … Read more
I want to get the current user, so I can access fields like their email address. But I can’t do that in asp.net core. This is my code: HttpContext almost is null in constructor of controller. It’s not good to get a user in each action. I want to get the user’s information once and … Read more
I am wondering wether the Password Hasher that is default implemented in the UserManager that comes with MVC 5 and ASP.NET Identity Framework, is secure enough? And if so, if you could explain to me how it works? IPasswordHasher interface looks like this: public interface IPasswordHasher { string HashPassword(string password); PasswordVerificationResult VerifyHashedPassword(string hashedPassword, string providedPassword); … Read more
Looking at ASP.NET Identity (new membership implementation in ASP.NET), I came across this interface when implementing my own UserStore: //Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core.dll namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Identity { public interface IUserSecurityStampStore<TUser> : { // Methods Task<string> GetSecurityStampAsync(TUser user); Task SetSecurityStampAsync(TUser user, string stamp); } } IUserSecurityStampStore is implemented by the default EntityFramework.UserStore<TUser> which essentially get and set the TUser.SecurityStamp property. … Read more
A default MVC 5 App comes with this piece of code in IdentityModels.cs – this piece of code is for all the ASP.NET Identity operations for the default templates: public class ApplicationDbContext : IdentityDbContext<ApplicationUser> { public ApplicationDbContext() : base(“DefaultConnection”) { } } If I scaffold a new controller using views with Entity Framework and create … Read more
Can somebody please explain, what the claim mechanism means in new ASP.NET Identity Core? As I can see, there is an AspNetUserLogins table, which contains UserId, LoginProvider and ProviderKey. But, I still can’t understand or find any information on when data is added to the AspNetUserClaims table and what situations this table is used for? … Read more
In VS 2017, I created a new ASP.NET Core Web Application. On the second page of the wizard, I chose Web Application, and for Authentication, I chose “Individual User Accounts”. Now, I’m trying to find the Pages associated with /Account/Register and /Account/Login. _Layout.cshtml brings in _LoginPartial.cshtml, much as it did in classic MVC: <div class=”navbar-collapse … Read more
I am using the release version (RTM, not RC) of Visual Studio 2013 (downloaded from MSDN 2013-10-18) and therefore the latest (RTM) version of AspNet.Identity. When I create a new web project, I select “Individual User Accounts” for authentication. This creates the following tables: AspNetRoles AspNetUserClaims AspNetUserLogins AspNetUserRoles AspNetUsers When I register a new user … Read more
I have an Article entity in my project which has the ApplicationUser property named Author. How can I get the full object of currently logged ApplicationUser? While creating a new article, I have to set the Author property in Article to the current ApplicationUser. In the old Membership mechanism it was simple, but in the … Read more
I’ve done this before with MVC5 using User.Identity.GetUserId() but that doesn’t seem to work here. The User.Identity doesn’t have the GetUserId() method. I am using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity. 20 Answers 20
