Documenting and Testing Web Services

We can easily test a web service by making HTTP GET requests using a browser. To test other HTTP methods, we need a more advanced tool.

Testing GET requests using a browser

We will use Chrome to test the three implementations of a GET request: for all customers, for customers in a specified country, and for a single customer using their unique customer ID:

Step 1: Start the Northwind.WebApi web service project.

Step 2: Start the browser.

Step 3: Navigate to https://localhost:5001/api/customers and note the JSON document returned, containing all 91 customers in the Northwind ...