How to manually add Identity to an existing ASP.NET Core project

Question

Hi,

I currently have an ASP.NET Core 5 project that I created without selecting any Authentication. The reason is that I am using Telerik UI controls and the project was created with a Telerik template which does not offer selecting Authentication. However, I want to implement my own Identity functionality using the MVC pattern and avoid Razor Pages. I know that I can use scaffolding, but such process adds the default Identity Razor approach. I have been searching for articles on how to add Identity from scratch without using scaffolding but everything I have found goes in this direction.

Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on how to manually add Identity without any Razor approach so I can implement my own MVC controllers and views for Login, Register, etc.?

Respectfully,
Jorge Maldonado

Answer 1

I guess I just found a good step-by-step tutorial here:
https://www.tektutorialshub.com/asp-net-core/asp-net-core-identity-tutorial/

Although this tutorial uses Razor Pages to build the UI, you can take advantage of such code to implement your own Controllers and Views instead.

Regards,
Jorge Maldonado