Add user First Name and Last Name to an ASP.NET Identity 2?

Question

I changed over to use the new ASP.NET Identity 2. I'm actually using the Microsoft ASP.NET Identity Samples 2.0.0-beta2.

Can anyone tell me where and how I can modify the code so that it stores a user First and Last name along with the user details. Would this now be part of a claim and if so how could I add it ?

I assume I would need to add this here which is the register method in the account controller:

        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            var user = new ApplicationUser { UserName = model.Email, Email = model.Email };
            var result = await UserManager.CreateAsync(user, model.Password);
            if (result.Succeeded)
            {
                var code = await UserManager.GenerateEmailConfirmationTokenAsync(user.Id);
                var callbackUrl = Url.Action("ConfirmEmail", "Account", new { userId = user.Id, code = code }, protocol: Request.Url.Scheme);
                await UserManager.SendEmailAsync(user.Id, "Confirm your account", "Please confirm your account by clicking this link: <a href=\"" + callbackUrl + "\">link</a>");
                ViewBag.Link = callbackUrl;
                return View("DisplayEmail");
            }
            AddErrors(result);
        }

Also if I did add the first and last names then where is this stored in the database? Do I need to create an additional column in a table for this information?

Answer 1

You'll need to add it to your ApplicationUser class so if you use Identity Samples, I imagine you have something like that in your IdentityModels.cs

public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser {
    public async Task<ClaimsIdentity> GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager<ApplicationUser> manager) {
        // Note the authenticationType must match the one defined in CookieAuthenticationOptions.AuthenticationType
        var userIdentity = await manager.CreateIdentityAsync(this, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
        // Add custom user claims here
        return userIdentity;
    }
}

after adding First and Last Names it would look like this:

public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser {
    public async Task<ClaimsIdentity> GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager<ApplicationUser> manager) {
        // Note the authenticationType must match the one defined in CookieAuthenticationOptions.AuthenticationType
        var userIdentity = await manager.CreateIdentityAsync(this, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
        // Add custom user claims here
        return userIdentity;
    }

    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

Then when you register user, you need to add them to the list now that they are defined in ApplicationUser class

var user = new ApplicationUser { UserName = model.Email, Email = model.Email, FirstName = "Jack", LastName = "Daniels" };

first and last names will end up in AspNetUsers table after you do the migrations