Asp.net MVC 4 - use Database First > Entity Data Model

Asp.net mvc 4, all the tutorials show simple membership being utilized with Code First (latest trend in database setup/usage). This is how to utilize simple membership with Database First using Entity Data Model.

This was discovered via a StackOverFlow.com answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15112214/using-mvc-4-simplemembership-with-an-existing-database-first-ef-model

1) Create MVC 4 app and run it to create the default membership database and tables (mvc does this automatically).

2) Change .../Filters/InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.cs as follows:

private class SimpleMembershipInitializer
        {
            public SimpleMembershipInitializer()
            {
                //Database.SetInitializer<UsersContext>(null);

                try
                {
                    //using (var context = new UsersContext())
                    //{
                    //    if (!context.Database.Exists())
                    //    {
                    //        // Create the SimpleMembership database without Entity Framework migration schema
                    //        ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext.CreateDatabase();
                    //    }
                    //}

                    if (!WebSecurity.Initialized)
                    {
                        WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("DefaultConnection", "UserProfile", "UserId", "UserName", autoCreateTables: true);
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    throw new InvalidOperationException("The ASP.NET Simple Membership database could not be initialized. For more information, please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=256588", ex);
                }
            }
        }

3) Comment out sections in /Models/AccountModels.cs:

public class UsersContext : DbContext
    {
        public UsersContext()
            : base("DefaultConnection")
        {
        }

        //public DbSet<UserProfile> UserProfiles { get; set; }
        public DbSet<ExternalUserInfo> ExternalUsers { get; set; }
    }

    //[Table("UserProfile")]
    //public class UserProfile
    //{
    //    [Key]
    //    [DatabaseGeneratedAttribute(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
    //    public int UserId { get; set; }
    //    public string UserName { get; set; }
    //}

4) Create an entity data model (*.edmx file) as normal.

5) In /Controllers/AccountController.cs and anywhere else where DB interaction is needed, replace as follows:

//using (UsersContext db = new UsersContext())

using (evEntities ent = new evEntities())
{
      // code to access database
}