Technical requirements

We will need to use the following tools in this chapter:

• Visual Studio 2019: We'll use this to edit our ASP.NET Core code. This can be downloaded and installed from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/.
• .NET 5.0: This can be downloaded from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0.
• SQL Server 2019 Express Edition: We'll use this for our database. This can be downloaded and installed from https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/sql-server/sql-server-editions-express.
• SQL Server Management Studio: We'll use this to create our database. This can be downloaded and installed from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms.
• Q and A: We'll start with the QandA backend project we created and finished in Chapter 2, Creating Decoupled React and ASP.NET 5 Apps. This is available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ASP...