Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore

About

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore utilizes Entity Framework Core to provide functionality enabling the storage of user, role, and other identity-related data in a database.

Key Features

• Provides user and role management
• Enables secure authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Allows storage and validatation of user passwords using hashing
• Tracks email confirmation for user account validation
• Tracks two-factor authentication to provide an extra layer of security
• Tracks failed login attempts to help protect against brute-force attacks enabling locking out user accounts after multiple failed login attempts
• Uses claims to define fine-grained access control policies
• Seamlessly integrates with Entity Framework Core for data storage and retrieval

How to Use

To use Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore, follow these steps:

Installation

dotnet add package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore

Configuration

Add the following code to the Program.cs of your ASP.NET Core app:

builder.Services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
    options.UseSqlServer(builder.Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));

builder.Services.AddDefaultIdentity<ApplicationUser>()
    .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();

You can replace ApplicationDbContext with your own database context class derived from IdentityDbContext and ApplicationUser with your own user class containing additional properties derived from IdentityUser.

Make sure to configure the connection string via "ConnectionStrings:DefaultConnection" (or whatever you rename it to) so it can connect to your database.

Main Types

The main types provided by Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore include:

• IdentityDbContext: Provides the database context for storing and managing user, role, and other identity-related data
• IdentityUserContext: Provides methods and properties for querying and manipulating user information
• RoleStore: Provides methods for creating, updating, and deleting roles, as well as querying and managing role-related data
• UserStore: Provides methods for creating, updating, and deleting users, as well as querying and managing user-related data
• UserOnlyStore: Provides methods for creating, updating, and deleting users, as well as querying and managing user-related data for users without roles

Additional Documentation

For additional documentation and examples, refer to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core Identity.

Feedback & Contributing

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore is released as open-source under the MIT license. Bug reports and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository.