MVC 5 UserManager: The entity type ApplicationUser is not part of the model for the current context

Question

I\'m trying (but failing) to implement the MVC UserManager to my website. I thought my case is fairly trivial. I have a User class (Entity Framewor

Answer 1

The problem is that you're trying to add a User you added to one DbContext to a ApplicationUser you add to a different DbContext (created by the UserManager).

Instead, you should do this as a single operation. Just do this:

var dbUser = new User 
{ 
    Firstname = model.FirstName, 
    Lastname = model.LastName, 
    Email = model.UserName 
};
var appUser = new ApplicationUser(model.UserName);
appUser.UserInfo = dbUser;
try
{
   var result = await UserManager.CreateAsync(appUser, model.Password);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
   // show error or whatever
}