Inheritance problems with EntityFrameworkCore Identity

Question

I recently decided to implement the ASP.NET Identity functionality, on a website I'm developing in ASP.NET Core MVC.

Let's take a quick look at the tables and classes in topic:

public class User : IdentityUser
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public stirng LastName { get; set; }
    public int CountryId { get; set; }

    public Country Country { get; set; }
}

public class Country 
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string ISO { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

The Country class is somewhat irrelevant, but in case you wanted the reference from the User class.

With this setup, I've configured my database context like this:

public class DatabaseContext : IdentityDbContext<User>
{
    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(builder);

        builder.Entity<IdentityUser>.ToTable("User");
        builder.Entity<IndentityRole>.ToTable("Roles");
        builder.Entity<IdentityUserRole<string>>.ToTable("UserRoles");
        builder.Entity<IdentityUserClaim<string>>.ToTable("UserClaims");
        builder.Entity<IdentityUserLogin<string>>.ToTable("UserLogins");
    }
}

I'm using custom tables (renamed) and mapping them like this.

Problem

Now, whenever I run my project, at the first database call I'm making, I'm getting the following error:

The entity type 'User' should derive from 'IdentityUser' to reflect the hierarchy of the corresponding CLR types.

To me, this error says that my class User doesn't inherit from the interface IdentityUser , and I'm not quite sure why that is so? Clearly my class User DOES inherit from IdentityUser ?

Answer 1

Instead of

builder.Entity<IdentityUser>.ToTable("User");

You need to put

builder.Entity<User>.ToTable("Users");

And in the Startup class where you add the identity service you need to do this

services.AddIdentity<User, IdentityRole>();