ASP.NET MVC5 Identity 04 May 2014 Dave-Stuart Here are FOUR fantastic tutorials on MVC5 Identity i.e. Forms Based Authentication (FBA). It's not like the old version when you had to create an ASPNETDB database! The .NET 4.5 Framework has a lot of built in code so these well written aticles help show this. ONE: http://typecastexception.com/post/2013/10/27/Configuring-Db-Connection-and-Code-First-Migration-for-Identity-Accounts-in-ASPNET-MVC-5-and-Visual-Studio-2013.aspx TWO: http://typecastexception.com/post/2013/11/11/Extending-Identity-Accounts-and-Implementing-Role-Based-Authentication-in-ASPNET-MVC-5.aspx THREE: http://typecastexception.com/post/2014/02/13/ASPNET-MVC-5-Identity-Extending-and-Modifying-Roles.aspx FOUR: http://typecastexception.com/post/2014/02/19/ASPNET-MVC-5-Identity-Implementing-Group-Based-Permissions-Management-Part-I.aspx Excellent work Jon Atten!