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Upgrading from ASP.NET.Identity 1.0 to 2.0

ASP.NET.Identity 2.0 is out, and it adds a bunch of great features.

– Two-Factor Authentication (SMS, Email or custom)
– Account Lockout
– Account Confirmation via Email
– Password Reset
– Sign out everywhere
– Choose your Primary Key type (string, int, Guid)
– IQuerable Users and Roles
– Delete User
– Enforcing Unique User Names



The upgrade was more fiddly than I thought it would be. Here is what I had to do. I hope it helps.



1. Update Entity Framework to 6.1

2: Update all your OWIN components if they already exist in your project.

(Yes. NuGet should handle this for me. It didn’t. Upgrading the Owin components before the Identity packages resolved some issues for me)

3: Update Microsoft ASP.Net Identity Core and then ASP.Net Identity EntityFramework

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