Question:

I am implementing Membership and security in my MVC4 website using custom database. Every things working fine but when I used .EDMX(Designer) to add my database tables membership and security starts giving errors. <strong>I also know the reason: This is due to duplicate Class files as default membership use code first approach and I am using database first approach.</strong> My question is there is any soluton that I can work using database first(EDMX) and also my security and membership functionality works fine.

Thanks.

The following post details the steps to take when using SimpleMembership with a Database-First approach: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15112214/using-mvc-4-simplemembership-with-an-existing-database-first-ef-model/15234074#15234074" rel="nofollow">Using MVC 4 SimpleMembership with an existing database-first EF model</a>

Also, you may find the following link has some useful information about SimpleMembership: <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/08/29/simplemembership-membership-providers-universal-providers-and-the-new-asp-net-4-5-web-forms-and-asp-net-mvc-4-templates.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/08/29/simplemembership-membership-providers-universal-providers-and-the-new-asp-net-4-5-web-forms-and-asp-net-mvc-4-templates.aspx</a>