In the “Create New ASP.NET Core Web Application” window, select .NET Core as the runtime and ASP.NET Core 3.1 (or later) from the drop-down list at the top. I’ll be using ASP.NET Core 3.1 here.

Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core.

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 ...