Adding role to AspNetUserRoles table in ASP.NET Identity

Question

I use ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in my MVC application and I want to assign 2 default roles to the user who login to the system for the first time by adding 2 records to the AspNetUserRoles table with UserId and RoleId. Is there a practical way to to this? Or do I have to add these default roles using DBContext and Entity Framework, etc. (I use EF Code First)? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

After creating the user record in Register post action

var user = new ApplicationUser { UserName = model.Email, Email = model.Email };
var result = await UserManager.CreateAsync(user, model.Password);

You can add the roles

await UserManager.AddToRoleAsync(user.Id, "role1");
await UserManager.AddToRoleAsync(user.Id, "role2");

Answer 2

You could do a check in the AccountController, Register method (the one with the HttpPost), something like: if (!MyDbContext.Users.Any()) {...}

And if there are no users, assign roles to the newly created user with: UserManager.AddToRoleAsync