Today I tried to integrate identity into mvc projects. The main doc about this is at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/scaffold-identity?view=aspnetcore-7.0&tabs=netcore-cli#scaffold-identity-into-an-mvc-project-without-existing-authorization dotnet add package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design dotnet add package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore dotnet add package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.UI dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools # add second dbcontext for identity and authorinization, use database sqlite dotnet aspnet-codegenerator identity -dc MyApplication.Data.ApplicationDbContext \ --files "Account.Register;Account.Login" --databaseProvider sqlite dotnet ef migrations add CreateIdentitySchema \ --context MyApplication.Data.ApplicationDbContext dotnet ef database update \ --context MyApplication.