Creating an ASP.NET core web application to use the library from NuGet

In this recipe, we will create an ASP.NET core web application, and then we will install the .NET Standard 2.0 library we uploaded at NuGet in the previous chapter.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 installed and updated, and also make sure you have completed the previous chapter.

How to do it...

1. Open Visual Studio 2017.
2. Click File | New | Project and select Web in the right-hand pane under Visual C#. 
3. Select ASP.NET Core Web Application in the right-hand pane:

4. Now, in the Name: textbox, type Chapter12.Azure.WebAppCore, and, under the Location: textbox, select a proper location and leave the other fields as they are:

5. Click OK.

6. In the New ASP.NET Core Web Application dialog box, select Empty and leave the other fields as they are:

7. Click OK.
8. The Solution Explorer (Ctrl + Alt + L) should look like this:

9. Now, right-click on the Dependencies label.
10. Select Manage NuGet Packages.
11. Click Browse and, in...