Creating an ASP.NET core web application

Let's start this chapter by creating an ASP.NET Core web application. I am assuming that you have Visual Studio 2017 or a later version installed in your development environment. Follow these steps to create the application:

1. Open Visual Studio and click on the menu item by navigating to File | New | Project.
2. Navigate to Visual C# from the installed template and select Web.

3. Then, select ASP.NET Core Web Application and enter the application name as My Todo, as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating a project named My Todo

4. Select the ASP.NET Core Empty template and click on Ok to create the project, as illustrated:

Select an empty ASP.NET Core template

The solution structure of the My Todo application that we created is shown in the following screenshot:

The default solution structure of My Todo

The Startup class is the entry point of an ASP.NET Core web application. The Configure method in the Startup class is used to set up a request pipeline to handle...