Creating Roles in Asp.net Identity MVC 5

Question

There is very little documentation about using the new Asp.net Identity Security Framework.

I have pieced together what I could to try and create a new Role and add

Answer 1

Here we go:

var roleManager = new RoleManager(new RoleStore(new ApplicationDbContext()));


   if(!roleManager.RoleExists("ROLE NAME"))
   {
      var role = new Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.IdentityRole();
      role.Name = "ROLE NAME";
      roleManager.Create(role);

    }