Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Project hosting

You need to have access to Visual Studio Online/TFS Online (now VSTS) to host a project. For this you need to follow these steps:

1. Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/vso/ using your preferred browser.
2. Click on Sign in, as shown:

VSTS home screen

3. Enter your Microsoft account; you can create one if you don’t have one.
4. Follow the steps and create your account.
5. You will be redirected to your Visual Studio Team Services Accounts page:

VSTS my profile page

6. Click on Create new project.
7. You will be redirected to a new page where ...