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

As an improvement on Peters code above you can use this:

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

   if (!roleManager.RoleExists("Member"))
            roleManager.Create(new IdentityRole("Member"));