Customizing Claims for Authorization in ASP.NET Core 2.0
There have been some major changes to ASP.NET Identity with the release of Core 2.0, which you can read about here . One of the major changes is that it does not rely on using middleware anymore to customize it. Instead dependency injection is used by configuring via services in the ConfigureServices method of StartUp.cs . There is not much documentation or examples on how to do this so I am going to explore how to customize ASP.NET Identity and publish some examples in this blog. First I wanted to look at how you would add custom claims to the identity and then use those claims for authorization. To begin create a new ASP.NET Core Web Application project in Visual Studio 2017. Be sure to select . NET Core and ASP.NET Core 2.0 in the two drop downs at the top. Select the template for Web Application (Model-View-Controller) and Change the Authentication to Individual User Accounts . When the project is created you are ready to add some code. For this example we are s