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 improved identity management in ASP.NET Core to implement identity-based authentication for minimal APIs quickly, easily, and with less code.

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.

Microsoft shipped ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 6, with the red-hot Blazor project getting built-in support for handling authentication and authorization, among other updates.