Unable to resolve service for type IEmailSender while attempting to activate RegisterModel

Question

I'm using Identity and I have a problem that I make a new example project and with individual authentication and scaffold identity InvalidOperationException: Unable to resolve service for type 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.UI.Services.IEmailSender' while attempting to activate 'MASQ.Areas.Identity.Pages.Account.RegisterModel'.

Answer 1

I am using ASP.NET Core 3.0 and had similar issue. I added the following .AddDefaultUI() to my Startup.cs & it worked.

 public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
                options.UseSqlServer(
                    Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));
            services.AddIdentity<IdentityUser, IdentityRole>()
                .AddDefaultTokenProviders()
                .AddDefaultUI()
                .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();

            services.AddControllersWithViews();
            services.AddRazorPages().AddRazorRuntimeCompilation();
        }

Answer 2

There're two ways to do that :

1. remove the services.AddDefaultTokenProviders() in the ConfigurureServices() to disable two-factor authentication (2FA) :

   // file: `Startup.cs` :
   services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>()
       .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();
       ///.AddDefaultTokenProviders(); /// remove this line
   

2. Add your own IEmailSender and ISmsSender implementation to DI contianer if you would like to enable 2FA

   // file: `Startup.cs`
   
   services.AddTransient<IEmailSender,YourEmailSender>();
   services.AddTransient<IEmailSender,YourSmsSender>();
   

Edit:

Both should work.

Both should work for ASP.NET Core 2.1. However, as of ASP.NET Core 3.0, the first approach doesn't work any more.

Answer 3

Add Default UI in the configuration service:

services.AddIdentity<IdentityUser, IdentityRole>()
    .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>()
    .AddDefaultTokenProviders()
    .AddDefaultUI();

Answer 4

For ASP.NET Core 5.0 you can use the following code, instead of calling AddIdentity

services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>(options => options.SignIn.RequireConfirmedAccount = true)
            .AddEntityFrameworkStores<AppDbContext>()
            .AddDefaultTokenProviders();