Identity and VB

I feel like I've wasted the last two days.  I have been using Membership for many years.  It works great and I am comfortable with it.
I decided to give Identity a try using the webforms templates in VS2013.  This has been a frustrating waste of time.
It was easy to 'register' a user.  The database tables were automatically generated as expected.  But, as soon as I wanted to implement rudimentary roles, the training wheels came off.
Since there is basically no clear examples or tutorials for using identity with VB, I was finally able to get this put together:
'Dim Role As New IdentityRole 'Dim roleStore = New RoleStore(Of IdentityRole)() 'Dim manager = New RoleManager(Of IdentityRole)(roleStore) 'Role.Name = "Admin" 'manager.Create(Role)
Dim myUser = New ApplicationUser() With {.UserName = "XXXXX"} Dim userStore = New UserStore(Of ApplicationUser)(New ApplicationDbContext( ...