How do I setup ASP.NET Identity to use my own connection string?

Question

I have an MVC5 app that\'s using EF. I would like to add ASP.NET Identity and I\'ve noticed that the connection string for ASP.NET identity is using \"DefaultConnection\". W

Answer 1

The actual question shall be "How do I setup ASP.NET Identity to use my own connection string?"

If above is the correct summary of your question, below is the answer.

ASP.NET Identity uses EntityFramework for database related tasks. So you can use following option as suitable.

Option 1: EntityFramework's default connection string can be setup using following code snippet in web.config

Option 2: Programatically, you can also pass ConnectionString name to the DbContext's constructor. like new ApplicationDbContext(MyConnectionString)