ASP.NET Identity - HttpContext has no extension method for GetOwinContext

Question

I have downloaded, and successfully ran the ASP.NET Identity sample from here: https://github.com/rustd/AspnetIdentitySample

I am now in the middle of implementing t

Answer 1

After trial and error comparing the using statements of my controller and the Asp.Net Template controller

using System.Web;

Solved the problem for me. You are also going to need to add:

using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin;

To use GetUserManager method.

Microsoft couldn't find a way to resolve this automatically with right click and resolve like other missing using statements?