ASP.NET Core Identity: No service for role manager

What am I doing wrong? My gut says there's something wrong with how I add the RoleManager as a service.

The registration part is actually fine, tho' you should remove services.AddScoped<RoleManager<IdentityRole>>(), as the role manager is already added for you by services.AddIdentity().

Your issue is most likely caused by a generic type mismatch: while you call services.AddIdentity() with IdentityRole<int>, you try to resolve RoleManager with IdentityRole, which is an equivalent of IdentityRole<string> (string being the default key type in ASP.NET Core Identity).

Update your Configure method to take a RoleManager<IdentityRole<int>> parameter and it should work.


I was having this issue

No service for type 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.RoleManager`

And this page was the first result on Google. It did not answer my question, so I thought I would put my solution here, for anyone else that may be having this problem.

ASP.NET Core 2.2

The missing line for me was .AddRoles() in the Startup.cs file.

        services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>()
            .AddRoles<IdentityRole>()
            .AddDefaultUI(UIFramework.Bootstrap4)
            .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();

Hope this helps someone

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authorization/roles?view=aspnetcore-2.2 (at the bottom)