.NET API development end-to-end

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Creates a working ASP.NET Core Web API for a fictitious to‑go restaurant, scaffolds CRUD endpoints for Contact, MenuItem, MenuItemOrdered and ToGoOrder, and wires up EF Core with SQLite plus seed data and migrations via Visual Studio Connected Services. Fixes scaffold bugs (PUT preserves fields, POST ToGoOrder looks up existing Contact), uses HTTP files and Endpoints Explorer to send and debug requests, and demonstrates environment switching and secrets (user secrets, DPAPI, Key Vault) between Visual Studio scaffolding, Entity Framework Core + SQLite, http-client.env.json + user secrets, HTTP file request debugging.

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" chapters (16)

1. 0:00Introduction and setup
2. 0:54Creating the API project
3. 2:21Adding models and scaffolding
4. 5:48Completing scaffolding
5. 6:54Endpoints Explorer usage
6. 8:21Database configuration
7. 10:42Applying database updates
8. 11:47Testing endpoints with HTTP
9. 13:44Refactoring endpoint logic
10. 16:51Complex endpoint operations
11. 18:54Debugging the API
12. 21:32Testing complex workflows
13. 22:47Environments and secrets
14. 25:25Switching API environments
15. 27:44Advanced secrets management
16. 31:17Course recap

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