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Apps and Services with .NET 10 - Third Edition
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Apps and Services with .NET 10 - Third Edition

by Mark J. Price
February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
772 pages
17h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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10

Building and Securing Minimal API Web Services

This chapter is about building and securing web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal API. This includes implementing techniques to protect a web service from attacks as well as authentication and authorization.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding web services
  • Building web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal API
  • Relaxing the same origin security policy using CORS
  • Preventing denial of service attacks using rate limiting
  • Improving startup time and resources using native AOT
  • Understanding identity services

Understanding web services

Before we build a modern web service, we need to cover some background to set the context for this chapter.

Understanding web service acronyms ...

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