AcebookApi is a web service created in .NET Core 2.1, PostgreSQL 10 & Visual Studio Code on macOS

1. Get the Mac C# SDK version 2.1
   • At the time of writing, the newest version of the Mac SDK was 3.0, but there were some compatibility issues with the dotnet entity framework
   • If you're feeling brave, give the latest version a try (but don't spend more than 30 mins on it)
2. Verify that you have insalled the SDK by executing $ dotnet in your terminal - you should see some output text
3. Get Visual Studio
4. Clone this repo with $ git clone git@github.com:makersacademy/acebook-csharp-template.git
5. Open folder AcebookApi in your Visual Studio editor, and double click on AcebookApi.csproj
6. Install postgres (if you haven't got it already) with $ brew install postgresql
7. Then start postgres with $ brew services start postgresql
8. Create your DB with createdb Acebook
9. Run the sql migration scripts with $ dotnet ef database update
   • If this command fails, you may be using the wrong version of dotnet core
10. Run your server with $ dotnet watch run
11. Verify that your server is running by hitting https://localhost:5001/api/post) - you should see some JSON

• I can explain or diagram how data is sent from the browser and returned from the server
• I can make the application render a c sharp template view
• I can post create a form that posts data to the server
• I can use the form to create new DB entries
• I can add new fields to the model and database
• I can add automated tests

These videos demonstrate specific aspects of C# development. The codebase used in the videos is here.

• navigating-a-csharp.mov
• add-template-csharp.mov (branch add-template-to-view)
• creating-new-todo-items.mov (branch add-items-to-db)
• adding-a-migration.mov (branch add-fields-to-model)