ASP.NET Core 6 allows us to create APIs that include a bare minimum of files, features, and dependencies. Here’s how to test a minimal Web API.

We’ll use this ASP.NET Core 7 Web API project to use OpenAPI to document minimal API endpoints in the sections below. What is the OpenAPI specification?

Microsoft recommends replacing relic from old .NET Framework with Blazor, but you can still do ASP.NET Web Forms apps in Visual Studio 2022 if you want to, with a couple tweaks.