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

    public static void createUserRole(string roleName)
    {
        if (!System.Web.Security.Roles.RoleExists(roleName))
        {
            System.Web.Security.Roles.CreateRole(roleName);
        }
    }