Creating our first microservice

For our mobile application, we previously created a simple data access proxy that retrieves data from Cosmos DB. In this exercise, we will be creating small web API components that will expose various methods for CRUD operations on our collections.

Initial setup

Let's begin our implementation:

1.  First, create an ASP.NET Core project:

2. Once the project is created, do a quick test to check whether the dotnet core components are properly set up. Open a console window and navigate to the project folder. The following commands will restore the referenced packages and compile the application:

dotnet restore
dotnet build

3. Once the application is built, we can use the run command and...