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Alan
Alan

Reputation: 1637

In MVC5 how can I create user records in code?

VS2013, MVC5, VB

The MVC5 template works well to create new users from the Register View while the application is running. But if I want to create users in code, how do I do that?

The following is naïve code, but demonstrates what doesn't work:

Dim user = New ApplicationUser() With {.UserName = "[email protected]", .Email = "[email protected]"}
Dim acct As New AccountController
acct.UserManager.CreateAsync(user, "Temp1.11")

This doesn't work because there is no HttpContext for UserManager.

There's a lot going on here that I don't understand and I'm a little lost. What I set out to do was simply create a list of users using the seed method in Configuration.vb. I thought I could just copy the way the existing AccountController.Register method works, but obviously not.

The answer to my question would ultimately be how to create users in the seed, but I'd like to also understand why my thinking was so wrong about simply trying to use portions of the code from the Register method. I don't quite understand the HttpContext and how that comes into being.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 336

Answers (1)

DavidG
DavidG

Reputation: 118977

You don't need to use AccountController to get access to the UserManager object. Instead just create that directly:

Dim user = New ApplicationUser() With {.UserName = "[email protected]", .Email = "[email protected]"}
Dim myUserManager As New UserManager()
myUserManager.CreateAsync(user, "Temp1.11")

Upvotes: 1

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