Kevin Junghans

In a previous post I describe how to move the data from a SimpleMembership database to an ASP.NET Identity database.  After some more research I found that the ASP.NET Identity Team has put together a sample solution for migrating from SimpleMembership to ASP.NET Identity that includes some SQL scripts to assist with the migration .  Be sure to check out this solution on CodePlex if you are migrating your SimpleMembership website. I also realized in my previous post that I did not mention the benefit of using SimpleSecurity in your migration.  SimpleSecurity contains an implementation of ASP.NET Identity that has an API that is a super-set of the WebSecurity class used in SimpleMembership.  This will allow you to plug in ASP.NET Identity into your existing code base with little to no changes. In addition it provides features such as email confirmation during registration and password reset that are not available in the initial release of ASP.NET Identity. Happy Migrations.

ASP.NET Identity is replacing SimpleMembership as the security/membership framework to use when creating ASP.NET applications.  If you are moving to MVC 5 and Visual Studio 2013 the ASP.NET templates generate code that uses ASP.NET Identity.  ASP.NET Identity is much more extensible than SimpleMembership is and it uses the new OWIN architecture available in MVC 5.  I think that ASP.NET Identity is an improvement over SimpleMembership and the old membership provider model that historically was used with ASP.NET applications.  The main problem I have with it is the lack of documentation that is currently available.  One article I was looking for in particular was how to migrate an existing website that uses SimpleMembership to ASP.NET Identity.  You can move to MVC 5 and keep using SimpleMembership as I wrote about here .  But what if you wanted to take advantage of benefits and features of ASP.NET Identity in a legacy website.  Microsoft wrote about  Migrating an Existing Website from