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

Overview of .csproj

As mentioned previously, in a plain console application template, there are two essential files: ProjectName.csproj and Program.cs. First of all, let's have a look at the .csproj file:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">    <PropertyGroup>        <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>        <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.0</TargetFramework>    </PropertyGroup></Project>

The format of the .csproj file is XML, just like earlier versions of the .NET Framework. The

Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" namespace refers to the SDK we want to use to build our project. The PropertyGroup node contains a set of properties, and it can be associated with some conditional behaviors. ItemGroup is a node that usually contains package references. In .NET Core, it is possible to ...