ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity userManager.IsInRole

Question

The following code does not work, and I can\'t explain why... My user manager is causing significant distress in that it creates users and roles just fine but when I run thi

Answer 1

So I will answer this myself to save anyone the hours of pain I suffered because of this.

The reason for this occurring was that I had lazy loading disabled, I have enabled this to be on in my Migrations project like so.

protected override void Seed(BlogContext blogContext)
    {
        AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
        blogContext.Configuration.LazyLoadingEnabled = true;
        //Add seed classes here!    
    }