Click Create. This will create a new ASP.NET Core API project in Visual Studio. We’ll use this project to work with Data Transfer Objects in the subsequent sections of this article.

In ASP.NET Core you can add services to the services container easily. Dependency injection is not only a first-class citizen in ASP.NET Core, but support for dependency injection is built-in.

A GitHub project providing more than 300 code samples to illustrate ASP.NET Core fundamentals has amassed more than 4,000 stars.

'I think we can say that VB.NET finally made it to ASP.NET Core,' Egyptian developer Mohammed Hamdy Ghanem told <i>Visual Studio Magazine</i> about his new open-source project.