• Three layers: Api, Domain and Entity
• Automapper
• DI (.NET Core feature)
• UnitOfWork
• Generic Service and Repository with Dapper ORM
• Sync and Async calls
• Generic exception handler
• Serilog logging with Console and File sinks
• FluentMigrator runner migration and seed
• JWT authorization and authentication
• Implemented IdentityServer4 with an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core 2.
• Swagger and Swashbuckle with ASP.NET Core 2
• XUnit tests run for real database
• Postman API tests for import as json file
• LazyCache caching option for API service calls

Updates .NET Core:

Updates .NET 8:LTS version

Updates .NET 6.x:

.NET 5.x:

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Instructions:

1. Download and install the extension (VSIX).
2. Open Visual Studio and select new ApiNCoreD (with Dapper ORM) solution template from Visual C# templates section.
3. Nuget dependencies should be restored automatically with Internet connection. If not then you can use command 'Manage Nuget Packages -> Restore' and run for each project.
4. Once a solution is created the API service can run from Visual Studio with displaying the info page.
5. The configuration file in API project appsettings.json has to be updated like below:
"YourSolutionNameDBMigration": "your db connection string with no initial catalog specified",
"YourSolutionNameDB": "your db connection string",
6. Set in Visual Studio solution property page multiple projects startup for the API service and IndentityServer and run Visual Studio solution. When the VS run displays the info pages for API and IndentityServer than stop the run. The run triggers database migration and data seed code which creates and populates initial tables.
7. Run all tests in Test project. This time is used JWT as authetication service for the API.
8. Set and save in configuration file (appsettings.json) in Test project this setting:
"Authentication":"UseIndentityServer4": true,
9. Run IdentityServer by righ-click on project IdentityServer and "View/View in Browser" and wait for IS4 startup page
10. Build the solution.

Extended VSIX version steps

11. Run all tests in Test project. This time is used Indentity Server 4 as authetication service for the API.
12. Import Postman_tests_collection.json from Test project folder to Postman application.
13. Run JWT tests in Postman runner.
14. Set and save in configuration file (appsettings.json) in API project this setting:
"Authentication":"UseIndentityServer4": true,
15. Build the solution.
16. Run API and IS project the same time (use multiple startup project VS option)
17. Run IS4 tests in Postman runner.
18. Set REST API and Blazor test project as start up and run solution
19. Done. Download full version of VSIX