Creating our project

As already decided in the previous sections, we will create our ProductService in ASP.NET Core or C#, using Visual Studio. Let's see what steps are required to do this:

  1. Start Visual Studio.
  2. Create a new project by navigating to FileNewProject.
  3. From the template options available, select ASP.NET Core Web Application, name it FlixOne.BookStore.ProductService, and click on ok.
  4. Next, select Web API from the template screen and click on ok.

The following image depicts how our new solution should look:

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