Upgrading to Optimizely 12 ASP.NET Core Identity

Migrating from ASP.NET Identity to ASP.NET Core Identity might be a bit tricky. This blog post, written by my brilliant colleague, Sven-Erik, should help tackle the obstacles along the way.

Read full article on our company blog: https://www.getadigital.com/blog/upgrading-to-optimizely-12-asp.net-core-identity

Jan 31, 2022

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Luc Gosso (MVP) Jan 31, 2022 03:23 PM

Very well written, Sven-Erik! lets hope @optimizely CMS core team, looks at the changes needed to simplify overrides needed to ApplicationBuilderExtensions,ApplicationOptionsPostConfigurer and AspNetIdentitySchemaUpdater.

I will try it asap, thx! and will link to it from my blog post https://devblog.gosso.se/2021/11/upgrading-episerver-cms-11-to-optimizely-cms-12-porting-to-net-5/

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