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 ...

Microsoft provides more minimal API information at these links: Tutorial: Create a minimal web API with ASP.NET Core Differences between minimal APIs and APIs with controllers Minimal APIs overview ...

In the “Create New ASP.Net Core Web Application” window, select .NET Core as the runtime and ASP.NET Core 2.2 (or later) from the drop-down list at the top. I’ll be using ASP.NET Core 3.0 here.