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User Authentication with ASP.NET Identity

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Overview of Adding User Registration

2:56 with James Churchill

We're ready to start writing code! Let's start with providing users with a way to register with our web app by adding a "User Registration" page.

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    Welcome back, now that we've installed the necessary identity and 0:04
    OWIN related NuGet packages, we're ready to start writing code. 0:08
    The first thing that we need to do is provide users with a way to 0:12
    register with our web app. 0:16
    We'll accomplish by adding a user registration page. 0:17
    Our user registration page will contain a relatively simple form. 0:21
    We'll just need to prompt the user for their email address and password. 0:25
    The password field will actually be two separate fields, one field for 0:30
    their password, and another for confirming their password. 0:35
    Confirming their provided password is necessary as users won't be able to see 0:38
    the text that they're typing into the password input elements. 0:42
    Hiding the text prevents prying eyes from spying the users password. 0:46
    But don't make the mistake thinking that your users passwords are secure because 0:51
    you can't see them displayed in the browser. 0:55
    I know it's confusing, but these password input elements 0:58
    are just masking the underlying text characters by replacing them with dots. 1:01
    When we post the form to the server, our password will be sent in regular old text, 1:07
    which is sometimes referred to as clear text. 1:13
    This means that you could easily read the text if you're inspecting the post body 1:16
    information or monitoring the HTTP traffic between the client and the server. 1:20
    Monitoring traffic is often referred to as packet sniffing. 1:26
    The way to protect your users passwords 1:31
    is to encrypt all of the communication between the client and the server. 1:33
    We'll see how to do that later in this course. 1:38
    We'll be making a lot of changes to our web app in this section. 1:41
    We'll start by adding the controller, view model, and view for 1:45
    the user registration page. 1:49
    Then we'll add some identity related classes to our project 1:51
    that will support user registration. 1:54
    Including the User, UserManager, and SignInManager classes. 1:56
    Then we'll configure the Identity OWIN middleware component, so that Identity can 2:01
    work with the requests and responses that flow to and from our web app. 2:06
    Once we implement user registration, we'll work on some updates to the layout page. 2:11
    We'll add register, sign in, and sign out buttons to the menu. 2:16
    But the sign in sign out functionality won't be implemented until later. 2:20
    If you have experience with ASP.NET MVC, the process of adding the controller, 2:25
    view model, and view, should be familiar to you. 2:30
    I'm going to rely on that familiarity a bit and 2:33
    move through this part of the process fairly quickly. 2:36
    I'll cover every step in the process, but I'll do so 2:39
    without as much explanation as I would give in a beginner course. 2:42
    If any part of what I'm about to show you is unfamiliar or 2:46
    confusing at all, see the teacher's notes for 2:49
    links to Treehouse resources that can help get you up to speed. 2:52

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