Exposing WWTravelClub packages using Web APIs

In this section, we will implement an ASP.NET REST service that lists all the packages that are available for a given vacation’s start and end dates. For didactic purposes, we will not structure the application according to the best practices we have described previously; instead, we will simply generate the results with a LINQ query that will be directly placed in the controller action method. A well-structured ASP.NET Core application has been presented in Chapter 18, Implementing Frontend Microservices with ASP.NET Core.

Let us make a copy of the WWTravelClubDB solution folder and rename the new folder WWTravelClubWebAPI80. The WWTravelClubDB project was built step by step in the various sections of Chapter 13, Interacting with Data in C# – Entity Framework Core. Let us open the new solution and add a new ASP.NET Core API project to it named WWTravelClubWebAPI80 (the same name as the new solution folder). For simplicity...