Technical requirements

We'll use the following tools in this chapter:

• Visual Studio 2019: We'll use this to edit our ASP.NET code. This can be downloaded and installed from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/.
• .NET 5: This can be downloaded from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0.
• SQL Server Management Studio: We'll use this to execute a stored procedure in our database. This can be downloaded and installed from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms?view=sql-server-2017.
• Postman: We'll use this to try out changes we make to our REST API endpoints. This can be downloaded from https://www.getpostman.com/downloads/.
• WebSurge: This is a load testing tool that we can download from https://websurge.west-wind.com/.
• Q&A: We'll start with the Q&A backend project we finished in the previous chapter. This is available on GitHub at...