Custom Membership with Microsoft.AspNet.Identity - CreateLocalUser fails

Question

I\'ve been trying to implement a custom version of the new Identity features in ASP.NET 4.5 (Microsoft.AspNet.Identity), using Visual Studio 2013. After many hours of playing a

Answer 1

PulseUser.Id is defined as a string but doesn't appear to be set to a value. Were you meant to be using a GUID for the Id? If so, initialise it in the constructor.

    public PulseUser() : this(String.Empty) { }
    public PulseUser(string userName) 
    {
        UserName = userName;
        Id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
    }

You will also want to perform a check that the user name doesn't already exist. Look at overriding DbEntityValidationResult in PulseDbContext. Do a new MVC project in VS2013 to see an example.