To get the most out of this book

The reader should have prior knowledge of .NET Core and .NET Standard, along with basic knowledge of C#, RESTful Services, Visual Studio 2017 (as an IDE), Postman, Advanced Rest Client, and Swagger.

To set up the system, readers should have following on their machines:

• Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 or later (for download and installation instructions refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 or later (for download and installation instructions refer to https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bethmassi/2011/02/18/step-by-step-installing-sql-server-management-studio-2008-express-after-visual-studio-2010/)
• .NET Core 2.0
  • Download: https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/windows
  • Installation instructions: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/benjaminperkins/2017/09/20/how-to-install-net-core-2-0/