The tooling story changed dramatically with .NET Core, because of its serious emphasis on the command line. This is a great fit for .NET Core's cross-platform, tooling-agnostic image.

Several features have been added to Minimal APIs with the .NET 7 release. This tutorial shows how they are now almost as powerful as traditional controller-based APIs while being far less verbose.

Click Create. We’ll use this ASP.NET Core Web API project to work with the REPR (request-endpoint-response) design pattern in the sections below. Applying route constraints in minimal APIs ...

Click Create. This will create a new ASP.NET Core MVC 6 project in Visual Studio 2022. We’ll use this project to work with HTTP logging in the subsequent sections of this article.