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+# .Net Todo REST API
+This sample application shows how to create simple REST API service that performs CRUD operations on a simple Todo table.
+ASP.NET Core Web API is used to implement REST Service in the example.
+Service uses built-in JSON functionalities that are available in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database.
+
+## Documentation
+More details about this sample are available in CodeProject article: 
+http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1106622/Building-Web-API-REST-services-on-Azure-SQL-Databa
+
+## How to use and run the sample?
+1. Download the sample or clone repository,
+2. Create database that contains Todo table using the Transact-SQL script placed in /setup/setup.sql or using bacpac file stored in /setup/TodoDb.bacpac,
+3. Change connection string in Startup.cs class,
+4. Build and run sample app.
+
+## License
+These samples and templates are all licensed under the MIT license. See the license.txt file in the root.
+
+## Questions
+Email questions to: sqlserversamples@microsoft.com.