Web services accept HTTP requests and generate responses that contain data. In this chapter, I explain how the features provided by the MVC Framework, which is an integral part of ASP.NET Core, can be used to build on the capabilities described in Part 2 to create web services.
The nature of web services means that some of the examples in this chapter are tested using command-line tools provided by PowerShell, and it is important to enter the commands exactly as shown. Chapter 20 introduces more sophisticated tools for working with web services, but the command-line approach is better suited to ...
