Setting up a web dashboard for scoring results

The last step of setting up our development environment is to set up a visual dashboard to display the results of our text processing. There are many ways to create such a dashboard. To stick with the theme of this book, we are going to create one as an ASP.NET Core web application, that is hosted on Azure App Service.

Azure App Service is a PaaS environment geared towards web, API, and mobile backend applications (App Service can also be used to host functions under the App Service plan). One way to think of App Service for a .Net web application is as an IIS as a service.

Lets take a look at the following steps:

1. To start a new project in Visual Studio, navigate to to File -> New Project ->.NET Core -> ASP.NET Core Web Application. Enter the application name, folder location, and solution name for the new project. Let's call the new project TextScoreDashboard:

2. Click on Next, and, in the next step, select Web Application. Click on Next...