MVC 5 Seed Users and Roles

Question

I have been playing about with the new MVC 5, I have a few models, controller and views setup using code first migrations.

My question is how do I seed users and roles? I currently seed some reference data in my Seed method in Configuration.cs. But it looks to me that the user and roles tables are not created until something first hits the AccountController.

I currently have two connection strings so I can separate my data from my authentication into different databases.

How can I get the user, roles, etc tables populate along with my others? And not when the account controller is hit?

Answer 1

Here is example of usual Seed approach:

protected override void Seed(SecurityModule.DataContexts.IdentityDb context)
{
    if (!context.Roles.Any(r => r.Name == "AppAdmin"))
    {
        var store = new RoleStore<IdentityRole>(context);
        var manager = new RoleManager<IdentityRole>(store);
        var role = new IdentityRole { Name = "AppAdmin" };

        manager.Create(role);
    }

    if (!context.Users.Any(u => u.UserName == "founder"))
    {
        var store = new UserStore<ApplicationUser>(context);
        var manager = new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(store);
        var user = new ApplicationUser {UserName = "founder"};

        manager.Create(user, "ChangeItAsap!");
        manager.AddToRole(user.Id, "AppAdmin");
    }
}

I used package-manager "update-database". DB and all tables were created and seeded with data.