So far in this book, you developed the Employee Manager application using ASP.NET Core MVC and ASP.NET Core Razor Pages. By now, you are acquainted with the overall development process under ASP.NET Core and EF Core. Continuing this journey further, this chapter shows how Employee Manager can use ASP.NET Core Web API to perform the CRUD operations. It also shows how to use .NET Core’s HttpClient class to invoke the API. Specifically, you will learn to
Understand what are RESTful services
Create ASP.NET Core Web API
Execute raw T-SQL queries and stored procedures using EF Core ...