Moving ASP.NET Identity IdentityConfig.cs from App_Start folder - asp.net

I use ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in an ASP.NET MVC5 project that is composed of three layers; Web application (presentation layer), Unit Test (test project) and Class library (data layer). Normally IdentityConfig.cs is located in the App_Start folder of Web application but as I implement a Group-Based Permissions Management as indicated on this page I want to keep all the domain models and IdentityConfig.cs file to the Identity folder in data layer project instead of the web project (presentation layer). Because IdentityConfig.cs needs to access DbContext class that is placed in my data layer project. Is there any problem doing this? On the other hand, could you please explain a little bit what is the App_Start folder?
Here is the ASP.NET Identity folder structure in my project below:
DataLayer (class library)
Concrete EFDbContext
Entities (my entity classes except from ASP.NET Identity entities)
Identity
ApplicationGroupManager
ApplicationGroupStore
GroupStoreBase
IdentityConfig
IdentityModels
PresentationLayer (Web app)
App_Start
Controllers
AccountController
GroupsAdminController
ManageController
RolesAdminController
UsersAdminController

As long as you have asp.net identity, you will have to add reference to it in the presentation layer (web project) and the configuration will be kicked off from there.
If you moved it to the data access layer, then you put a security concern in the data access which is not right.
Normally, I just leave it in the web project and create my own user class and link it to the ApplicationUser class through its Id, but if you must seprate it, then you can put the IdentityConfig in a separate library that handles the cross cutting concerns like security, logging and exception handling as this layer will be working across all layers.
In the data access, you can have a custom user and role stores and put the configuration in the cross cutting library and link all of that in the presentation layer as this is the kickoff point for your web app.
The App_Start is justa normal folder that has the code that will be executed when the application starts, and you can put this code any where else, it is all called by the Global.asax file

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How can I structure my architecture server project?

I'm working with Silverlight. In it, I've created a web project.
I always have created desktop application where I divide my projects in three modules:
Domain
Application
Presentation
But now, I'm working to the server side and I really have no much idea about how to build my architecture. In it, I plan to have a entity model for my database.
So, can you give some ideas about the modules how to structure?
I structure my Silverlight server-side libraries as follows:
MyApp.Host: The main hosting project for the silverlight application. Brings in fact nothing more than the aspx file housing the XAP and the ClientBin folder containing the XAP files. Additionally you can use a global.asax file to run a bootstrapper or any other components needed to startup your server-side application.
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When I run the MVC app and it calls the WCF svc and the svc cannot see this appsettings value. If I move the appSettings section over to the MVC web.config the service application sees the value.
I would expect this from a calling application if it were a Winform or client based application calling a DLL but not where I have 2 separate apps where I actually want separate configuration files.
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I made one application in silverlight4 and used EDM and WCF-RIA for database access.
Now I want to integrate this application to asp.net project and when I integrate it into the ASP.net project it is giving this exception-
Microsoft JScript runtime error: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Load operation failed for query 'GetQuestions'. The remote server returned an error: NotFound. at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.OperationBase.Complete(Exception error)
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.LoadOperation.Complete(Exception error)
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.DomainContext.CompleteLoad(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
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Step-by-step:
Create RIA Services Library project by selecting Add New Project. Select Silverlight on the left. Select WCF RIA Services Class Library on the right. I will assume it is called the default name RIAServicesLibrary1 for this example. It will create a Silverlight client library called RIAServicesLibrary1 and a standard .Net library called RIAServicesLibrary1.Web for use by the Web server.
Add your EDMX to the RiaServices.web project. Select Add new item. Select Data on the left. Select ADO.Net Entity Data Model on the right. I will assume it is called the default Model1.edmx for this example. Connect it to your database tables etc.
Build your project so that the next step will find your data model.
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Add a reference to the web RIA services library project (RIAServicesLibrary1.Web) to your hosting web application (e.g. you ASP.Net website).
Copy/merge the various sections in the RIAServicesLibrary1.Web/app.config file into your <webapplication>/web.config file. This will include any connection strings and the module sections.
Build the project again so that the Data Source window will see your new Domain Context data sources.
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DomainService1 client = new DomainService1();
or use the Data Sources window to drag/drop a new grid etc onto a page.
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asp.net project
class library
WCF service class library
WCF service application
I've added a project refference from the asp.net project to the class library project and to the service class library project.
I've published the asp.net application, loaded it to the webserver root. all ok.
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