Part 3 of the tutorial series on Building Your Own Social Networking Backend RESTful API Using .NET

Setting up the Development Environment: This is part three in a tutorial series on building a backend RESTful API for a social networking platform using .NET from the ground up. In this section, we walk you through setting up the development environment, which servers as the foundation for the entire project. We cover the essential prerequisites for working with Microsoft technologies, and configure a SQL Server database to store the social networking data. We also install the latest .NET Core SDK, select our preferred IDE (Visual Studio or VS Code), and set up Postman to test the API endpoints.