Create a secure ASP. NET MVC 5 web app with log in, email confirmation and password reset (C#)by Rick Anderson.

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This tutorial shows you how to build an ASP. NET MVC 5 web app with email confirmation and password reset using the ASP. NET Identity membership system. Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Ipod Ipad Iphone.

You can download the completed application here. The download contains debugging helpers that let you test email confirmation and SMS without setting up an email or SMS provider.

This tutorial was written by Rick Anderson ( Twitter: @Rick. And. MSFT ). Create an ASP. NET MVC app. Start by installing and running Visual Studio Express 2.

Web or Visual Studio 2. Install Visual Studio 2. Update 3 or higher. Create a new ASP. NET Web project and select the MVC template.

Web Forms also supports ASP. NET Identity, so you could follow similar steps in a web forms app. Leave the default authentication as Individual User Accounts. If you'd like to host the app in Azure, leave the check box checked. Later in the tutorial we will deploy to Azure. You can open an Azure account for free.

Set the project to use SSL. Run the app, click the Register link and register a user. At this point, the only validation on the email is with the . The following image shows the Asp.

Net. Users schema: Right click on the Asp. Net. Users table and select Show Table Data. At this point the email has not been confirmed. Click on the row and select delete. You'll add this email again in the next step, and send a confirmation email. Email confirmation.

It's a best practice to confirm the email of a new user registration to verify they are not impersonating someone else (that is, they haven't registered with someone else's email). Suppose you had a discussion forum, you would want to prevent . Without email confirmation, .

Suppose Bob accidently registered as . Email confirmation provides only limited protection from bots and doesn't provide protection from determined spammers, they have many working email aliases they can use to register. You generally want to prevent new users from posting any data to your web site before they have been confirmed by email, a SMS text message or another mechanism. In the sections below, we will enable email confirmation and modify the code to prevent newly registered users from logging in until their email has been confirmed. Hook up Send. Grid. Although this tutorial only shows how to add email notification through Send.

Grid, you can send email using SMTP and other mechanisms (see additional resources). In the Package Manager Console, enter the following the following command: Install- Package Send.

Grid. Go to the Azure Send. Grid sign up page and register for free Send. Grid account. Add code similar to the following to configure Send. Grid: public class Email. Service : IIdentity.

Message. Service. Please @Html. Action.

Link(. Once you submit the registration form, you are logged in. Check your email account and click on the link to confirm your email. Require email confirmation before log in. Currently once a user completes the registration form, they are logged in. You generally want to confirm their email before logging them in. In the section below, we will modify the code to require new users to have a confirmed email before they are logged in (authenticated).

Update the Http. Post Register method with the following highlighted changes: //. POST: /Account/Register. The Temp. Data. View. Bag. Message is used to display the confirm instructions. The download sample contains code to test email confirmation without setting up email, and can also be used to debug the application. Create a Views\Shared\Info. You can use click on the Contact link to verify anonymous users don't have access and authenticated users do have access.

Run the app and verify you can't log in until you have confirmed your email address. Once you confirm your email address, click the Contact link. Password recovery/reset.

Remove the comment characters from the Http. Post Forgot. Password action method in the account controller: //. POST: /Account/Forgot. Password. . If the user accidently deletes the confirmation email, or the email never arrives, they will need the confirmation link sent again.

The following code changes show how to enable this. Add the following helper method to the bottom of the Controllers\Account. Controller. cs file: private async Task< string> Send.

Email. Confirmation. Token. Async(string user. ID, string subject). In the following sequence Rick. And. MSFT@gmail. com is first created as a local login, but you can create the account as a social log in first, then add a local login.

Click on the Manage link. Note the 0 external (social logins) associated with this account. Click the link to another log in service and accept the app requests. The two accounts have been combined, you will be able to log on with either account. You might want your users to add local accounts in case their social log in authentication service is down, or more likely they have lost access to their social account. In the following image, Tom is a social log in (which you can see from the External Logins: 1 shown on the page). Clicking on Pick a password allows you to add a local log on associated with the same account.

Email confirmation in more depth. My tutorial Account Confirmation and Password Recovery with ASP. NET Identity goes into this topic with more details. Debugging the app. If you don't get an email containing the link: Check your junk or spam folder. Log into your Send. Grid account and click on the Email Activity link.

To test the verification link without email, download the completed sample. The confirmation link and confirmation codes will be displayed on the page. Additional Resources.