Getting Started
Let’s start by making sure you’re in the right place. This is a book about creating Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using .NET. Along the way, we will look at a very simple backend (database) and frontend (user interface) and the tools we use to create and test APIs.
The core responsibility of an API is to decouple an application (web, mobile, and so on) from the backend (database, another API, and more). The API sits between the frontend (the user interface to your application) and the backend (for our purposes, a database).
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- What software you will need
- How to obtain the software you need
- Installing Visual Studio
