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

Roles View Model

public class RoleViewModel
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    [Required(AllowEmptyStrings = false)]
    [Display(Name = "RoleName")]
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Controller method

    [HttpPost]
    public async Task Create(RoleViewModel roleViewModel)
    {
       if (ModelState.IsValid)
       {
           var role = new IdentityRole(roleViewModel.Name);
           var roleresult = await RoleManager.CreateAsync(role);
           if (!roleresult.Succeeded)
           {
               ModelState.AddModelError("", roleresult.Errors.First());
               return View();
           }
           return RedirectToAction("some_action");
       }
       return View();
    }