Create claims identity in Identity 3

Question

Visual Studio 2015 scaffolding uses UserManager<TUser> which cannot be used to create ClaimsIdentity. Does anyone have a working example on how to do this?

The VS2015 scaffolding throws errors:

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;
}

N.B.: I have added properties to ApplicationUser which do not conflict with IdentyUser.

Answer 1

UserManager has changed in the MVC6 version. You will need to modify your code...

public async Task<ClaimsIdentity> GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager<ApplicationUser> manager) {
    var authenticationType = "Put authentication type Here";
    var userIdentity = new ClaimsIdentity(await manager.GetClaimsAsync(this), authenticationType);

    // Add custom user claims here
    return userIdentity;
}