what is the differences between Membership, SimpleMembership, ASP.NET Identity?
Which one is best in web forms?
How to use SimpleMembership in web forms.
Limitation with SimpleMembership in web forms.
You listed them in progressive order by age. The Asp.net Membership Provider was first introduced with .net 2.0. Later. Simple Membership was released but most recently Microsoft has replaced SimpleMembership with Asp.net Identity (Microsoft.Aspnet.Identity.Core). This article should help you understand... Forms authentication using ASP.NET Identity & VS 2013
Remember, there are changes currently taking place between the RC version of AspNet Identity and the RTM version which has not yet been released.
Here's another article that will help you. Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications
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I have a WebForms application that uses old Membership identity for authentication/authorization. Now I am adding an MVC Core application that needs to share the same users. But .Net Core doesn't support old way of authentication.
So I am thinking about migrating to a 3rd party provider. We already use Azure. But I cannot find a simple tutorial on how to do this migration to Azure Active Directory.
Here is an article about using Azure Active Directory as an identity provider for the webforms and mvc applications.
Also, you can refer to the official samples.
Select Register to create the application." What if I already have an
application?
If the application you mentioned refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/quickstart-register-app. You can use the old one(need to change the settings) or just create a new one.
Regarding ASP.NET Identity: how often is ASP.NET Identity used in real situation website projects?
We were only taught this in our studies and was wondering is there anything other options other any ASP.NET Identity when using Visual Studio and that is better.
Asp.Net Identity is the latest library by Microsoft and before it, we have been using Asp.Net Membership Provider and Web Security.
Since Asp.Net identity is built on OWIN, and working nice with Asp.Net Core, I don't see any other option to be used or offered by Microsoft.
You can use it for Forms Authentication, OAuth, Integration with Most of Social Identity Provider and Azure Active Directory.
I would say, it is the way to go
You can use MembershipReboot too, it is also good library for authentication in ASP.NET.
link: https://github.com/brockallen/BrockAllen.MembershipReboot
I have started to create ASP.NET membership for learning basis but i found new ASP.NET Identity. Some people suggested that latter is advanced than ASP.NET membership and ASP.NET simple membership.
I have read the comparison from this source. But still i have some questions because i some things are still unclear to me.
Can i use owin and oauth with ASP.NET membership and simple membership?
how i can authenticate web api with ASP.NET membership and simple membership?
Can i customize tables for profile, user and role in ASP.NET Identity?
Please suggest. If any one can suggest me a good reference for authorization and authentication of web API and ASP.NET Identity configuration, it would be great.
ASP.NET Identity is now a mature technology and it's complex enough to accommodate all your requirements.
More than so, there is even a better solution, it's called ASP.NET Identity Server and comes with couple things extra:
Can be used with Identity
Implements SSO (Single Sign-On)
Can be used with Entity Framework
It's a self host product
So to answer you're questions:
No, you cannot use both Identity and Simple Membership.
Using ASP.NET Identity Server, via a token.
You can customize the tables to meet you requirements.
Here is the official documentation for the Identity Server.
What is the difference between Simple Membership and Membership in asp.net? Is Simple Membership introduced in mvc 4.0?
ASP.NET membership was the traditional approach for authentication, authorization from the microsoft team.But, with the release of mvc 4, they introduced new improved version with name Simple Membership.Simple membership relies on Extended Membership Provider
Behind the scenes, the SimpleMembershipProvider and the ExtendedMembershipProvider, as well as DotNetOpenAuth are all at work.
These changes was the need, because many web sites no longer want to store user credentials locally. Instead, they want to use OAuth and OpenID so someone else is responsible for keeping passwords safe, and people coming to the site have one less password to invent (or one less place to share an existing password). With these changes it is easy to authenticate a user via Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, or Google. All you need to do is plugin the right keys.
Summary:
1)SimpleMembership has been designed as a replacement for the previous ASP.NET Role and Membership provider system.
2)SimpleMembership solves common problems developers ran into with the Membership provider system and was designed for modern user / membership / storage needs.
3)SimpleMembership integrates with the previous membership system, but you can't use a MembershipProvider with SimpleMembership.
4)The new ASP.NET MVC 4 Internet application template AccountController requires SimpleMembership and is not compatible with previous MembershipProviders.
5)You can continue to use existing ASP.NET Role and Membership providers in ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 - just not with the ASP.NET MVC 4 AccountController.
6)The existing ASP.NET Role and Membership provider system remains supported, as it is part of the ASP.NET core.
7)ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms does not use SimpleMembership; it implements OAuth on top of ASP.NET Membership.
Hope, you got the clear concept of your question.
I'm implementing ASP.Net Identity for my MVC web application.
Could someone profide hints on how to use DevEx ORM and not Entity Framework?
Thanks in advance.
I got this answer from DevEx team:
Hi Muris,
ASP.NET Identity Framework is highly dependable on the Entity Framework, therefore it is required to write a lot of custom code to utilize it with other ORM. What we plan to do in the context of the Add support for VS2013 authentication modes ticket is to support selecting the ASP.NET Identity as an authentication provider when creating a new project using the Project Wizard. Since our Project Wizard uses Entity Framework as a data provider, we will also use it to support the ASP.NET Identity authentication.