Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 9.1 – Online material

Implementing advanced features for web services

If you would like to learn about web service health checks, OpenAPI analyzers, adding security HTTP headers, and enabling HTTP/3 support for HttpClient, then you can read the optional online-only section at the following link:

https://github.com/markjprice/web-dev-net10/blob/main/docs/ch09-advanced.md.

Improved route tooling

For .NET 8, Microsoft improved the tooling for working with routes for all ASP.NET Core technologies, including controller-based Web APIs, Minimal APIs, and Blazor. The features include the following:

• Route syntax highlighting: Different parts of routes are now highlighted in your code editor.
• Autocompletion of parameter and route names, and route constraints...