Microsoft recently introduced new ASP.NET Identity - replacement for old (Simple)Membership. Unfortunately, I can\'t use this new membership system in my old project because
I had this same issue. I fixed it with the web.config.
However I had changed the assembly name and namespace and did not find the original assembly name anywhere anymore.
I then discovered that clean was not removing the original assembly from the bin.
Aftter deleting the bin litter, I was able to remove the web.config OWIN entry.