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ASP.NET Identity

ASP.NET Identity

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ASP.NET Identity

- [Instructor] Membership framework was released with ASP.NET 2.0, but over the years, a lot of feedback was provided and ASP.NET team have now learned a lot from it. With the rise of social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social websites, the standard login way, username plus password, was not the case anymore. People prefer to use their already existing profiles to sign up, sign in instead of creating a new one using new credentials. Of course, this is great from the user perspective, so the developers at Microsoft had to do something about it. A modern membership system should be built and the system should enable redirection-based logins to authentication providers such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. Also, the more apps were being built with .NET framework, the more the unit testing of application code became a concern for developers. In 2008, ASP.NET added a new framework based on model-view-controller pattern, which of course helped developers…

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