Hi Stephen, I have done a fair bit of reading about asp.net Identity over the last 6 months and have currently implemented it in a few projects.
It can be as complicated or as simple as you want it but I guess there is a lot to learn when starting from scratch and you are not sure what you are doing. So here are some articles I found useful in my research. This history of where it came from. http://www.codemag.com/Article/1309101 The basics http://benfoster.io/blog/aspnet-identity-stripped-bare-mvc-part-1 http://benfoster.io/blog/aspnet-identity-stripped-bare-mvc-part-2 Creating your own storage providers http://www.asp.net/identity/overview/extensibility/overview-of-custom-storage-providers-for-aspnet-identity The bare bare minimum. http://www.khalidabuhakmeh.com/asp-net-mvc-5-authentication-breakdown-part-deux Sorry I don’t have any articles that directly deal with Azure and Active directory (Federation Services) as it was not required for my project. Although to validate against active directory I have followed the bare minimum guide and made use of the PrincipalContext to validate the username and password against active directory. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb154889(v=vs.110).aspx I hope that helps. Regards Adrian Halid From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Monday, 27 October 2014 2:52 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: MVC Membership Hey all, I'm a bit confused guys... Noticed they changed the membership stuff for MVC websites so did some reading and found the new stuff is called SimpleMembership. But then I find there's something else called Asp.Net Identity which works with Azure and AD. So now I've no idea which I should be going with (all my sites live in Azure currently). Once I decide which to use I'll need to migrate my current app to it. Anyone done that (I did it once for another site to SimpleMembership but don't think I kept the steps I followed). Or would it be easier to start over from a new MVC template and move my code over? I've not released this site so can just blow away the database stuff (ie no need to mess about with Migration scripts/code just yet). Did some searches but not found anything yet. Is it really that new? cheers Stephen
