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

the method i Use for creating roles is below, assigning them to users in code is also listed. the below code does be in "configuration.cs" in the migrations folder.

string [] roleNames = { "role1", "role2", "role3" };
var RoleManager = new RoleManager(new RoleStore(context));

                IdentityResult roleResult;
                foreach(var roleName in roleNames)
                {
                    if(!RoleManager.RoleExists(roleName))
                    {
                        roleResult = RoleManager.Create(new IdentityRole(roleName));
                    }
                }
                var UserManager = new UserManager(new UserStore(context));
                UserManager.AddToRole("user", "role1");
                UserManager.AddToRole("user", "role2");
                context.SaveChanges();