Creating C# Serverless Project with .NET Core

In the previous section, we used Visual Studio and the AWS Toolkit to create our first AWS Lambda function with C#. Now we will create a more complex serverless project that contains Lambda functions and the API Gateway. We are going to use the AWS Toolkit and Visual Studio to create a serverless project. We will also explore the generated source code and deploy and test the project.

1. Go to Visual Studio 2015 and create a new serverless project. Select File | New | Project.
2. Select AWS Serverless Application and click OK.
3. We are creating a little bit more complex application, so select the Blog API using DynamoDB.

4. Our serverless project has been created. There are two files that have been generated for us, Blog.cs file and Functions.cs file, as shown here:

In the Functions.cs file, we find the function handlers that are used to implement the business logic for our Blog API. First, there is a constructor that sets up the context for our DynamoDB:

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