How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

A major part of Microsoft’s “cloud-first” .NET 7 release in November, ASP.NET Core 7 brings powerful new tools to the web development framework to help developers create modern web applications.

ASP.NET Core is the successor to ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API and was first introduced in 2016. This means you can create a new MVC Web application, Web API service or both using .NET Core. One of ...

One of the highlights of improved ASP.NET Core functionality in .NET 6 was support of minimal APIs, for which work is still ongoing in the new .NET 7 Preview 3. Minimal APIs are architected to create ...