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I’m not one to clutch strongly to ideals, or entrench myself in unrelenting philosophies, but I am a creature of habit. Most of my web applications over the past year have been Angular based and I have certain proclivities to particular structures in my applications. My IDE of choice has been Visual Studio 2013, so I take advantage of it and .NET to serve up my base structure.

In dealing with VS2013/.NET, there are some base mechanisms of which I take advantage. The ones I’d like to discuss are .NET bundling and Nuget.

Ok, when you title a blog post as Part 1, you better follow up with a Part 2. I hadn’t forgotten, but it’s taken a little to come back around to my adventures with ASP.NET Identity.

Where was I? Oh yeah, last time I discussed how to, mostly, get ASP.NET Identity working with a pre-existing security model. This was working fine for me with the v2.1 Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework packages, but when I updated to the v2.2 packages, things broke.

For whatever reason, the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework v2.2 packages changed the flow. The v2.1 packages, with my modest code modifications, didn’t seem to go back to the local (EF) database to update/create the current user. But, it may have been performing a check for user existence and then doing a upsert. The v2.2 packages, though, broke this paradigm.

As anyone familiar with .NET web development is aware, Microsoft has tried to get security right many times. We’ve gone from its ubiquitous Membership model to its “simple” providers. Now, the latest, albeit it’s been around for a while, is its Identity framework.