Creating a data project

There are many ways of persisting data: document databases, relational databases, and files, to name a few. To avoid complexity in the book, we will use the simplest way of creating blog posts for our project by storing them as JSON in a folder.

To save our blog posts, we will use JSON files stored in a folder, and to do so, we need to create a new project.

Creating a new project

We can create a new project from within Visual Studio (to be honest, that’s how I would do it), but to get to know the .NET CLI, let’s do it from the command line instead.

To create a new project, follow these steps:

1. Open a PowerShell prompt.
2. Navigate to the MyBlog folder.
3. Create a class library (classlib) by typing the following command:

   dotnet new classlib -o Data
   

   The dotnet tool should now have created a folder called Data.

4. We also need to create a project where we can put our models: ...