Seed Users and Roles with MVC 4, SimpleMembershipProvider, SimpleRoleProvider, Entity Framework 5 CodeFirst, and Custom User Properties

Originally posted on Long Le's Blog:
I’ve been Googling over the weekend and so far didn’t find any articles out there on how integrate EF5 CodeFirst nicely with SimpleMembership and at the same time, seeding some of your users, roles and associating users to roles while supporting custom fields/properties during registration, hence this blog…

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