Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core

2 Our first web API project

This chapter covers

• Reviewing the system requirements
• Choosing and installing the integrated development environment (IDE)
• Creating a new ASP.NET web API project
• Configuring the project’s startup and settings files
• Debugging, testing, and improving our first project

In this chapter, we’ll create the MyBGList web API, the cornerstone of the service-oriented architecture concrete scenario that we introduced in chapter 1. More specifically, we’ll put on the shoes of the software development team in charge of creating and setting up the project. We’ll have to make some high-level decisions, such as choosing the integrated development environment (IDE) to adopt and then switch to a more practical approach, such as getting ...