Let’s Get Minimal: .NET 6 New APIs in ASP.NET Core

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Claims that minimal web APIs in .NET 6 (with .NET 7 previews) cut ceremony to a few lines, replace controllers with map/post delegate overload handlers, and merge hosting via WebApplicationBuilder. Demo builds a working leaderboard Web API using Visual Studio 2022, Entity Framework (in‑memory for tests), Application Insights and Swagger/OpenAPI; code lives on GitHub. Highlights include attribute-on-lambda metadata, DI and automatic binding, the new configuration manager, and file uploads via IFormFile in .NET 7 — the demo runs successfully.

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1. 0:00Minimal APIs intro
2. 1:48ASP.NET Core 6/7 minimal APIs
3. 6:05Controller vs minimal APIs
4. 11:45Create minimal API project
5. 16:19Hosting model in ASP.NET Core
6. 22:37Request pipeline in minimal APIs
7. 27:19Endpoint mapping features
8. 32:02Dependency injection in minimal APIs
9. 36:36Migrate to minimal APIs
10. 39:24Configuration changes in .NET 6/7
11. 40:26Test minimal APIs
12. 42:34When to use minimal APIs
13. 45:19Q&A

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