Securing ASP.NET MVC Applications with ASP.NET Identity

ASP.NET offers Forms Authentication as one of the authentication schemes. Developers often use Forms Authentication in combination with membership, roles and profile features to provide security to their web applications. Over the years the needs of authentication schemes used in a web application have changed. To take into account these changing trends Microsoft has released ASP.NET Identity - a new way to authenticate users of your web application. This article describes how ASP.NET Identity can be used in an ASP.NET MVC application from the ground up.

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