Setting Up Your .NET 8 Development Environment (SDK, VS Code/Visual Studio, and CLI Basics)
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Setting Up Your .NET 8 Development Environment
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.NET 8 Web API Fundamentals: Routing, Models, Validation, and the Request Pipeline
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This post covers the fundamentals of building a Web API with .NET 8 (ASP.NET Core). If you’re new to the ecosystem, your goal isn’t to memorize every feature—it’s to understand the core mechanics: how requests flow through your app, how endpoints are defined, how data is validated, and how responses are shaped. Once these pieces click, everything else becomes “just configuration”.