Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Preparing your development environment

In this section, we will show you how to set up your development environment so that you can develop web services using ASP.NET Core. As we mentioned previously, .NET Core is cross-platform, so it can run on the most common OSes. We will also look at how to interact with the .NET Core CLI, which is the starting point for building, running, developing, and testing our services.

First of all, let's start by downloading .NET Core 3.1 from https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/. In our case, we'll install the SDK version, which contains all the components that are required for our development environment, including ASP.NET Core.