ASP.NET Core Identity 3.0 : Modifying the Identity Database

Joe Colon
8 min readJun 3, 2016

UPDATE: A new follow tutorial with even more advanced features here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyActxOsnsg

GIT: https://github.com/jvelezc/CoolWaves

I noticed that if you search in google how to use ASP.NET Core Identity 3.0 you find a lot of articles for Asp Net Identity 2.0 instead of what you really wanted. So I decided to give a nice introduction to the technology. This should be an easy read for most people!

All aboard!

Prerequisites:

Lets get it started! Open up Visual Studio 2015 Community and go to File New Project (CTRL-SHIFT-N). Now I am naming this project CoolWaves.

CoolWaves project

I also clicked on the Change Authentication button and subsequently selected Individual Accounts option. Then I pressed the OK magic button.

Simple Web Application Project Template

Sanity check! Now compile the project to make sure things are in order. If you cannot compile a project template then stop and…

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