README.md

.NET 5.0 Web API Authentication from Scratch

This repostitory consists of project for following aricles in my blog (originally written for .NET Core 3.1 but packages are updated to match .NET 5.0)

• .NET Core 3.0 (Preview 4) Web API Authentication from Scratch (Part 1): Up and Running.
• .NET Core 3.0 (Preview 4) Web API Authentication from Scratch (Part 2): Password Hashing.
• .NET Core 3.0 (Preview 4) Web API Authentication from Scratch (Part 3): Token Authentication

Setting Up

• Download / Clone this repository.
• Install latest .NET
• Create new database MyDatabase in SQL Server.
• Open Visual Studio Code in WebApiCore50 folder.
• Open integrated terminal using Ctrl+Shift+`
• Execute command dotnet restore in the terminal.
• Execute command dotnet tool update --global dotnet-ef --version 5.0.0 in the terminal to update Entity Framework Core .NET Command-line Tools.
• Execute command dotnet ef database update in the terminal. (to update the database using migrations)
• Execute command dotnet watch run in the terminal.