I use ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in my MVC application and I want to assign 2 default roles to the user who login to the system for the first time by adding 2 records to the AspNetUserRoles table with UserId and RoleId. Is there a practical way to to this? Or do I have to add these default roles using DBContext and Entity Framework, etc. (I use EF Code First)? Any help would be appreciated.
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After creating the user record in Register post action
var user = new ApplicationUser { UserName = model.Email, Email = model.Email }; var result = await UserManager.CreateAsync(user, model.Password); You can add the roles
await UserManager.AddToRoleAsync(user.Id, "role1"); await UserManager.AddToRoleAsync(user.Id, "role2"); 3 Comments
Jack
Many thanks for your reply. The oles can be assigned, but I cannot create new user in AspNetUsers table by using the first part of your code. Could you have a look at please?
Jack
On the other hand, I also need to add these new roles to the AspNetUserRoles table, but I am not sure if your code can also perform this.
tmg
@binary The first two lines of code are from default mvc5 template, thats how a new ApplicationUser / IdentityUser is inserted in database. The other two lines of code assign user to those roles, using asp.net-identity. In database inside AspNetUserRoles you will see two new entries {userId and role1Id} and {userId and role2Id}
You could do a check in the AccountController, Register method (the one with the HttpPost), something like: if (!MyDbContext.Users.Any()) {...}
And if there are no users, assign roles to the newly created user with: UserManager.AddToRoleAsync
