Hello world asp.net core mvc (RESTful service) (Create Service,Build,Host,Test)

Here is very easy step by step process to create a complete(Create Service,Build,Host,Test) simple \ hello world equivalent REST ful service using asp.net core mvc.

Audience: Beginners\Intermediate

Environment :

VS 2015 SP 3

.Net core sdk (https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core)

Windows 7

IIS 6.1

 Open new project, select asp.net core, give a name to project

 Select Web Api( this actually means RESTful service)

Next you will see solution like this

Click on valuecontroller.cs. You will see code like below, this is the default code you will see. We will modify slightly REST services in next screen shot.

Basically controller is the module which receives the client\web browser http request and processes it. Internally Routing middleware is the responsible for routing call to this valuescontroller and all http requests. Notice attribute routing [Route("api/[controller]")], so client have to invoke like www.name.com/../api/values . Next is [HTTPGet], like HTTP verb, which returns a collection or single entity

Click on Program.cs, you will see code like below. asp.net core has built up from scratch so it has new fast web server, its built into asp.net core, and its called Kestrel (async web server, platform independent, written using c libraries). Notice, iisintegration that is basically reverse proxy. IIS all it does is passes client http request to kestrel and vice versa.

Now lets build it

Select custom

 File system , select the output folder

Open IIS manager, Add new application, enter alias, select app pool.

Create a new app pool, notice its no manage code (its .net core)

 Go to the output folder, make sure iis_iusrs exist or have appropriate rights

That’s it.

Goto your favorite browser, type http://localhost/hellorestful/api/values/1

http://localhost/hellorestful/api/values