Extending ASP.NET Identity Roles: IdentityRole is not part of the model for the current context

Question

I\'m trying to use the new ASP.NET Identity in my MVC5 application, specifically I\'m trying to integrate ASP.NET Identity into an existing database. I\'ve already read the

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but just in case someone else is having a hard time adding roles/users when they modified asp identity to use numeric primary keys (int/long) instead of the default string for the Identity Roles, so if you have changed the IdentityUserRole in IdentityModels.cs to something like this:

public class Role : IdentityRole
{
    public Role() { }
    public Role(string name) { Name = name; }
}

You have to use the class Role instead of the default IdentityRole when constructing the RoleManager, so your code should be like this:

public static void RegisterUserRoles()
{
     ApplicationDbContext context = new ApplicationDbContext();

     var RoleManager = new RoleManager(new RoleStore(context));

     if (!RoleManager.RoleExists("Administrador"))
     {
         var adminRole = new Role {
              Name = "Administrador",
         };
         RoleManager.Create(adminRole);
     }
}

So this should populate your database properly, I think all experienced ASP programmers already know this, but for others this could take some time to figure out.