Hands-on .NET Minimal API for Web Developers - Introduction - Implementing Collection APIs - Getting Started

This video tutorial introduces minimal APIs and demonstrates how to implement collection APIs using these concepts. It covers creating API endpoints for a course resource, focusing on operations like getting, adding, updating, and deleting courses. The tutorial emphasizes the get method for listing all courses and guides through adding a data model and database context. It also explains dependency injection in minimal APIs, differing from conventional controller APIs, and concludes with implementing the get operation.

What is the primary focus of the initial section on collection APIs?

• Implementing CRUD operations for the courses resource

• Designing a user interface for the API

• Integrating third-party APIs

• Exposing endpoints for user authentication

Which method is used to expose the courses collection endpoint?

• mapPost

• mapPut

• mapGet

• mapDelete

What is the purpose of adding a data model in the 'get' method implementation?

• To represent an individual course

• To manage API versioning

• To handle user authentication

• To log API requests

Why is an in-memory collection used in this course?

• To focus on minimal API implementation

• To reduce costs

• To enhance security

• To improve performance

How does dependency injection in minimal APIs differ from conventional controller APIs?

• It requires additional libraries

• It uses a different syntax

• It is more complex

• It is slightly different