ASP.NET Identity

ASP.NET Membership (2005, Forms Authentication + SQL Server database to store user data)
ASP.NET Simple Membership (2010, easier to add and more customazible regarding user info)
ASP.NET Universal Providers (special for Microsoft Azure SQL Database or SQL Server Compact, with EF code first)

Considering these changes in web application development, ASP.NET Identity was developed with the following goals:

One ASP.NET Identity system for all ASP.NET frameworks, such as ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, Web Pages, Web API.
Ease of plugging in profile data about the user, eg you can easily enable the system to store birth dates.
Persistence control. It's easy to plug in different storage mechanisms such as SharePoint, Azure Storage Table Service, NoSQL databases, etc.
Unit testability. ASP.NET Identity makes the web application more unit testable.
Role provider which lets you restrict access to parts of your application by roles.
Claims Based. ASP.NET Identity supports claims-based authentication, where the user's identity is represented as a set of claims.
Social Login Providers. You can easily add social log-ins such as Microsoft Account, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others.
OWIN Integration. ASP.NET authentication is now based on OWIN middleware that can be used on any OWIN-based host.
NuGet package. ASP.NET Identity is redistributed as a NuGet package.

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