Service invocation with the .NET SDK

The best approach to understanding how the Dapr .NET SDK supports service-to-service invocation is to thoroughly examine a sample project.

These are the steps that we will follow:

1. Create a project for the Order service.
2. Configure Dapr in ASP.NET.
3. Implement Dapr with an ASP.NET controller.
4. Create a project for the Reservation service.
5. Prepare debugging configuration.
6. Implement Dapr with an ASP.NET Minimal API.

We will start by creating a project for the first Dapr application in our solution.

Creating a project for the Order service

When creating a project for a Dapr service, we start from the webapi template:

PS C:\Repos\practical-dapr> cd .\chapter04\
PS C:\Repos\practical-dapr\chapter04> dotnet new webapi -o
sample.microservice.order
The template “ASP.NET Core Web API” was created successfully.
Processing post-creation actions...
Running ‘dotnet restore’ on sample...