SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates - Jon Galloway. SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates The ASP.NET MVC 4 Internet template adds some new, very useful features which are built on top of SimpleMembership.
These changes add some great features, like a much simpler and extensible membership API and support for OAuth. However, the new account management features require SimpleMembership and won't work against existing ASP.NET Membership Providers. I'll start with a summary of top things you need to know, then dig into a lot more detail. Summary: The following is the result of a few conversations with Erik Porter (PM for ASP.NET MVC) to make sure I had some the overall details straight, combined with a lot of time digging around in ILSpy and Visual Studio's assembly browsing tools. SimpleMembership: The future of membership for ASP.NET Part of simplifying membership involved fixing some common problems with ASP.NET Membership. Problems with ASP.NET Membership. Seeding & Customizing ASP.NET MVC SimpleMembership. In ASP.NET MVC 4 Microsoft introduced a new membership provider that is referred to as SimpleMembership.
SimpleMembership makes it easier to customize user profiles and incorporates OAuth support. I have seen a lot of questions on StackOverflow on how to customize SimpleMembership and seed it with data and in this post I will discuss some methods for achieving both . SimpleMembership uses Entity Framework (EF) 5 and the code-first model. To initialize the database that contains the users and roles a filter is used called InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute. This is setup this way so that the initialization code is only called when accessing the actions on the AccountController.
In order to follow along with these directions for seeding and customizing SimpleMembership create a new MVC 4 project in Visual Studio and select the Internet option. Next we need to create our own database initializer. That is all you need to do to seed the SimpleMembership database at application start-up. SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates - Jon Galloway. Asp.net mvc 4 - Using MVC 4 SimpleMembership with an existing database-first EF model.
Seeding & Customizing ASP.NET MVC SimpleMembership. Using SimpleMembership in ASP.NET MVC 4. Features such as membership and role management have been a part of ASP.NET core infrastructure since version 2.0. Developers have been using the default membership provider and role provider in their web applications. However, a common observation is that the default membership and role providers are quite rigid in terms of database schema and the way user information is stored. Luckily, SimpleMembership provides a helping hand in this area. It extends the core membership and role providers in such a way that you can use a custom database table to store user information. This article gives you step by step instructions to configure and use the SimpleMembership in ASP.NET MVC projects. Overview of SimpleMembership Authentication and authorization are commonly needed features in any modern web application.
SimpleMembership, introduced with WebMatrix, tries to address these issues by offering a flexible model for authenticating the users. The inheritance hierarchy of SimpleMembership. Seeding & Customizing ASP.NET MVC SimpleMembership.