ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core. There are several ways to secure your APIs in ASP.NET Core 7. You can use ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

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A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...