From the course: Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core 8

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"Hello World," API style

"Hello World," API style

- [Lecturer] Without any further ado, let's create our first web API with .NET, using Visual Studio. I have it installed right here. And then go to File, New, and then Project. That brings up the same wizard that you get when you use the pop-up window that shows up when you launch Visual Studio and say that you would like to create a new project. Here we go. On the left we see the project templates I've been recently been using. And you see quite a bit, I did quite some work. And on the right you get a complete list that you can filter. So for instance, all project types, there is API and there is Web API. And what you see here depends a little bit also on which versions of the .NET SDK you have installed. But basically when you filter for Web API or API, you will get a couple of templates, and the first one and the last one, they look very, very similar. Yes, there's one difference. The first one is C# and number three is F#. So you can also filter by language. And in the end, you…

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