Membership Provider has been removed by the latest MVC version in favor of OWIN which allows both local and external provider authentication.

I am trying to use the new identity authentication (to be future proof for at least a year till Microsoft changes things all over again 😛 ) and have a central login on my website, which will then logon/logoff the user on the forums as well.

Problems:

Webconfig's no longer the place to declare forms authentication, since OWIN is taking over. - Solution: I thought of naming the OWIN cookie to .YAFNET_Authentication. Then perhaps membership.Create user whenever a user registers...However, with the external provider, I am not given a password to register for the user..etc. etc.

Is there an easy way about this? Has anyone done it, integrating OWIN Auth with YAFNET?

THanks 🙂

As for doing this for YAF? I have not. Importing the users from YAF which I believe uses ASPNET membership to the identity framework shouldn't be difficult. When it comes to the external authentication such as Facebook, Twitter, etc ... I do not know how that would work. I've moved my site over to VS2013 bootstrap template with YAF but simply left the membership intact because it works.

I am devoting my day today in figuring out how I could make this work.

An assumption (though I could be wrong) is that if I name my cookie after the auth cookie, then if someone's logged on, they should also appear logged on to yaf which would membership-query on a user based on the authentication, etc..

I would like to leave 3rd-party enabled (as it helps me understand OWIN better, this is a personal project).

But my question is, if all registration happens through my main site, I suppose I'd have to call the membership provider straight after and populate at least SOME values in YAF, namely a username. Now if I can find a way (there must be) for third party providers to also give access to user email...

Let's see, at least it's fun to explore 🙂

My main focus on my projects are converting them to bootstrap. Once that is completed and YAF is moved to bootstrap, I'll probably attempt to convert to Identity Framework as well. 🙂

When you say convert to boostrap - is it anything more other than installing boostrap and adjusting class values, and inserting bootstrap components? ( I feel like I am missing a BIG part of the pic when it comes to BS 🙂

Though the post is derailing towards Bootstrap, it's my post and I don't mind it at all since I've taken an interest into bootstrap as well as of late 😛 . (being a PhD student for 3 years now, I've lost touch with the fun coding stuff, and I am trying to catch up :)

When you say convert to boostrap - is it anything more other than installing boostrap and adjusting class values, and inserting bootstrap components? ( I feel like I am missing a BIG part of the pic when it comes to BS :)

haha sorry ... didn't mean to sidetrack your thread.

Bootstrap is responsive design layout, meaning the content will restructure depending on your resolution. By convert, I am meaning re-designing pages to implement the components and usage of bootstrap.

Essentially, I'm going through each page in all my projects and getting rid of things like this ...

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>January</td>
    <td>$100</td>
  </tr>
</table>

in favor of goodness like this

div class="row">
  <div class="col-lg-6">
    <div class="input-group">
      <span class="input-group-addon">
        <input type="checkbox">
      </span>
      <input type="text" class="form-control">
    </div><!-- /input-group -->
  </div><!-- /.col-lg-6 -->
  <div class="col-lg-6">
    <div class="input-group">
      <span class="input-group-addon">
        <input type="radio">
      </span>
      <input type="text" class="form-control">
    </div><!-- /input-group -->
  </div><!-- /.col-lg-6 -->
</div><!-- /.row -->

http://getbootstrap.com/components/  for a better explanation.

Basically going from a TABLE layout to a GRID layout which gives us a lot of flexibility. If I had a better handle on YAF and a blueprint to follow, I'd be throwing my hands in the YAF project too.

Edit, Yes, by converting I am mean it as in using the bootstrap classes and inserting bootstrap components. It's essentially a web developers wet dream of tools to use lol. I have several work projects a few side projects that I'm utilizing bootstrap with. So far all clients have been impressed.

Don't worry about sidetracking, all good info is welcome 🙂