How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

Take advantage of route constraints in minimal APIs to prevent unwanted requests from reaching your action methods and improve the security and performance of your ASP.NET Core applications.

Microsoft this week shipped the fourth preview of .NET 10 without groundbreaking features but with much work devoted to ASP.NET Core & Blazor, where several work items were devoted to OpenAPI.