In the “Create New ASP.NET Core Web Application” window, select .NET Core as the runtime and ASP.NET Core 3.1 (or later) from the drop-down list at the top. I’ll be using ASP.NET Core 3.1 here.

Learn the three ways you can return data from your ASP.NET Core Web API action methods.

Knowing the architecture for ASP.NET Core 2.1 Web API solutions may help broaden your understanding. The solution and all code from this article’s examples can be found in my GitHub repository.