Prerequisites

Please have everything on this page installed and verified before the workshop. Conference Wi-Fi is not a place to download an SDK.

Required

Tool	Notes	Download
.NET 10 SDK	Verify with `dotnet --list-sdks`	dotnet.microsoft.com
An editor	Visual Studio 2026, VS Code with the C# Dev Kit, or JetBrains Rider	VS · VS Code · Rider
Git	Any recent version	git-scm.com
The workshop repo	`git clone https://github.com/cwoodruff/aspnet-minimal-api-workshop.git`	GitHub

SQLite itself needs no separate install: the EF Core provider bundles the native library.

Tool	Why	Download
Docker Desktop or Podman	Module 5 builds and runs a container image. Without it you can still follow the Aspire portion.	Docker · Podman
A SQLite browser	Handy for peeking at the database during Module 2. SQLiteStudio or the VS Code SQLite Viewer extension both work.	SQLiteStudio

HTTP client

Every lab ships with a .http file that contains the requests you need, with variables for the base URL and the tokens from Module 3, so nobody types a JWT by hand. Visual Studio, VS Code (with the REST Client extension), and Rider all run .http files natively. If you prefer Postman, the same requests are available as a collection in the repo.

Pre-work (about 15 minutes)

Install the .NET 10 SDK and confirm it:
```
dotnet --list-sdks
```
You should see a line beginning with 10.0..

Clone the repo and run the starter:

git clone https://github.com/cwoodruff/aspnet-minimal-api-workshop.git
cd aspnet-minimal-api-workshop/src/00-start
dotnet run

Open https://localhost:7181/health in a browser. You should see Healthy.

success

If /health returns Healthy, your machine is ready. That one check exercises the SDK, the HTTPS development certificate, and the project restore, which covers nearly every environment problem we see on the day.

warning Trouble with HTTPS?

If the browser complains about the certificate, run dotnet dev-certs https --trust once and restart the app. On Linux, follow the dev-certs guidance for your distribution.

Detailed installation steps for the SDK and the supporting tools are on the Setting Up Your Machine page.