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Introduction Every time you start a new ASP.NET project, you face the same question: should I use Minimal APIs or Controllers? Microsoft introduced Minimal APIs in .NET 6 and has been pushing them hard ever since. The official docs now say "we recomm...

Sometimes you don’t need the full MVC setup — you just want to expose a few endpoints quickly and cleanly. That’s where Minimal APIs shine in ASP.NET Core. In this post, we’ll explore how to create Minimal APIs that are fast, lean, and production-rea...

Summary: This tutorial will teach you how to set up a minimal dotnet6 Rest API using SQL Server as the data store. According to Microsoft Docs, minimal APIs (Introduced with the Net6 framework) are architected to create HTTP APIs with minimal depende...
