Andrea Tosato - Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core: Build, test, and prototype web APIs quickly using .NET and C#

Build, test, and prototype web APIs quickly using .NET and C#

Andrea Tosato

Marco Minerva

Emanuele Bartolesi

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In memory of my mother and father, Giovanna and Francesco, for their sacrifices and for supporting me in studying and facing new challenges every day.

Andrea Tosato

To my family, friends, and colleagues, who have always believed in me during this journey.

Marco Minerva

In memory of my beloved mom, and to my wife, Francesca, for her sacrifices and understanding.

Last but not least, to my son, Leonardo. The greatest success in my life.

Emanuele Bartolesi

Andrea Tosato is a full stack software engineer and architect of .NET applications. Andrea has successfully developed .NET applications in various industries, sometimes facing complex technological challenges. He deals with desktop, web, and mobile development but with the arrival of the cloud, Azure has become his passion. In 2017, he co-founded Cloudgen Verona (a .NET community based in Verona, Italy) with his friend, Marco Zamana. In 2019, he was named Microsoft MVP for the first time in the Azure category. Andrea graduated from the University of Pavia with a degree in computer engineering in 2008 and successfully completed his masters degree, also in computer engineering, in Modena in 2011. Andrea was born in 1986 in Verona, Italy, where he currently works as a remote worker. You can find Andrea on Twitter.

Marco Minerva has been a computer enthusiast since elementary school when he received an old Commodore VIC-20 as a gift. He began developing with GW-BASIC. After some experience with Visual Basic, he has been using .NET since its first introduction. He got his masters degree in information technology in 2006. Today, he lives in Taggia, Italy, where he works as a freelance consultant and is involved in designing and developing solutions for the Microsoft ecosystem, building applications for desktop, mobile, and web. His expertise is in backend development as a software architect. He runs training courses, is a speaker at technical events, writes articles for magazines, and regularly makes live streams about coding on Twitch. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2013. You can find Marco on Twitter.

Emanuele Bartolesi is a Microsoft 365 architect who is passionate about frontend technologies and everything related to the cloud, especially Microsoft Azure. He currently lives in Zurich and actively participates in local and international community activities and events. Emanuele shares his love of technology through his blog. He has also become a Twitch affiliate as a live coder, and you can find him as kasuken on Twitch to write some code with him. Emanuele has been a Microsoft MVP in the developer technologies category since 2014, and a GitHub Star since 2022. You can find Emanuele on Twitter.

Marco Parenzan is a senior solution architect for Smart Factory, IoT, and Azure-based solutions at beanTech, a tech company in Italy. He has been a Microsoft Azure MVP since 2014 and has been playing with the cloud since 2010. He speaks about Azure and .NET development at major community events in Italy. He is a community lead for 1nn0va, a recognized Microsoft-oriented community in Pordenone, Italy, where he organizes local community events. He wrote a book on Azure for Packt Publishing in 2016. He loves playing with his Commodore 64 and trying to write small retro games in .NET or JavaScript.

Marco Zamana lives in Verona in the magnificent hills of Valpolicella. He has a background as a software developer and architect. He was Microsofts Most Valuable Professional for 3 years in the artificial intelligence category. He currently works as a cloud solution architect in engineering at Microsoft. He is the co-founder of Cloudgen Verona, a Veronese association that discusses topics related to the cloud and, above all, Azure.

Ashirwad Satapathi works as an associate consultant at Microsoft and has expertise in building scalable applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure. He is a published author and an active blogger in the C# Corner developer community. He was awarded the title of C# Corner Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in September 2020 and September 2021 for his contributions to the developer community. He is also a member of the Outreach Committee of the .NET Foundation.