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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.

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Your First ASP.NET Core Web API Project: .NET SDK, global.json and Project Structure

SDK versus runtime, multiple SDKs and global.json, how the dotnet new webapi template changed across versions, the csproj and TargetFramework, launchSettings.json and why the first request returns 307.

4 Nov 2026 8 min 74

Backend PART 01

What Is an ASP.NET Core Web API? HTTP and REST Fundamentals

We meet the Web API through the HTTP window: request and response anatomy, methods and idempotency, status code families and resource-oriented URLs. We also lay out the series: a .NET 6 core, then version posts.

4 Nov 2026 9 min 93