In which my friend, all around great guy, and React guru Zac Braddy shows you how to connect to a .NET Core WebApi

In this post, I take you through how to add Entity Framework Core to a .NET Core application, how the built in .NET Core Dependency Injection system works, and how to run queries against a DbSet.

Just what is .NET Core? I've not taken the time to actually describe what it is... until now, that is.

In the final week of October of 2106, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core 1.1. In this post I go through some of the changes and design decisions behind them. It's exciting stuff, if I do say so.

A very brief introduction to unit testing in .NET Core, how it can be achieved and what the pitfalls are.

A deep dive into the files which make up the default Hello, World application. These files are created when you issue the "dotnet new" command at the terminal. NOTE: This was correct a the time of posting, but changes in the SDK have happened since, and the "dotnet new" command no longer works like that.

I take you through the very first steps that you'll need to master in order to set up a .NET Core development environment on your computer. Including: installing the SDK, installing the (free) Visual Studio Code IDE, and the C# plugin for it.

Here I've put together some useful resources for investigating and building your knowledge of .NET Core. From documentation to podcasts, and some things in between.