In the most recent release of .NET 8, ASP.NET Core undergoes substantial improvements, with a primary focus on elevating Performance and fortifying Blazor. Notable updates extend to AOT, Identity ...

The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the Identity, API Authoring, SignalR, and new SPA templates for CLI.

Web developers enjoy some attention in the new .NET 8 Preview 7, where the ASP.NET Core framework saw improvements on several fronts ranging from JavaScript to Blazor.

Click Create. You should now have a new ASP.NET Core Web API project ready to go. We’ll use this project to implement basic authentication for Swagger in the subsequent sections of this article.