Creating an Empty Project

We will start by creating an empty ASP.NET Core project and explore how to enable it to serve simple web pages.

A step-by-step guide for creating an empty project

We will create an ASP.NET Core project showing a list of suppliers from the Northwind database. The dotnet tool has many project templates that do a lot of work for us, but it can be difficult to know which works best for a given situation, so we will start with the empty website project template and then add features step by step so that we can understand all the pieces:

Step 1: Use your preferred code editor to open the PracticalApps solution or workspace and then add a new project, as defined in the following list:

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