Link ASP.NET Identity users to user detail table

Question

I\'ve used default MVC template with individual authorization. After running the application it automatically creates the required Identity tables. I\'ve successfully regist

Answer 1

Yes, you should add a foreign key to your table. How to do so depends on how you set up your Entity Framework (EDMX / code first / reverse engineered from database), but this proceduree is explained in plenty other questions. That is a separate question and that has been answered before, try searching.

Now to store the details for a user, you can either create a record in your PersonalInformation table upon registering this user, or checking if it exists when editing a user:

var currentUserId = User.Identity.GetUserId();

// Look up existing record
var personalInformation = _dbContext.PersonalInformation
                                    .FirstOrDefault(p => p.UserId == currentUserId);

if (personalInformation == null)
{
    // If not exists, create and attach new record
    personalInformation = _dbContext.PersonalInformation.Create();  
}

// Map incoming model properties to entity

personalInformation.FirstName = model.FirstName;
personalInformation.Address = model.Address;

// ...

// Add or update the entity in the database
_dbContext.SaveChanges();