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

Setting up the project

Just like previous chapters, we can start by creating a new project using the web API template. Let's open the terminal and execute the following commands:

mkdir Catalog.APIcd Catalog.APIdotnet new sln -n Catalog.APImkdir srccd srcdotnet new webapi -n Catalog.APIdotnet sln ../Catalog.API.sln add Catalog.API

The first dotnet new command creates a new solution file named Catalog.API. The second dotnet new instruction creates a new web API project in the src folder. Finally, the last dotnet sln command adds the project to our solution.

The resulting filesystem structure looks like the following:

.├── Catalog.API.sln├── src│   ├── Catalog.API│   │   ├── Controllers│   │   ├── Program.cs│   │   ├── Properties│ │ │ └── launchSettings.json ...