MVC 5 & ASP.NET Identity - Implementation Confusion

Question

I\'m creating a new web application that will be written using MVC 5 and Entity Framework Database First Approach. I would also like to use

Answer 1

1) The new Katana Cookie middleware supports claims. This is what makes this better than forms auth cookie; claims model any key/value pair and those can be stored in the authentication cookie. See this post for more details:

http://brockallen.com/2013/10/24/a-primer-on-owin-cookie-authentication-middleware-for-the-asp-net-developer/

2 & 3) As far as your storage for identity data, if you need to work with an existing table then you might not be able to use Microsoft's EF provided classes. Instead you'd be left on your own to implement IUserStore and all the other store interfaces your app needs. I'm not certain it's worth changing what you're already using to store the user data.

Keep in mind that the OWIN/Katana part is separate from the identity storage.