Minimal API Development with ASP.NET Core - Create ASP.NET Core API Project with Visual Studio

The video tutorial guides viewers through setting up a new .NET Core Web API project in Visual Studio 2022. It covers selecting the appropriate project template, ensuring necessary workloads are installed, and choosing between .NET 6 and .NET 7 based on support and functionality. The tutorial also discusses project configuration options, such as authentication and API type, and concludes with creating the project and reviewing the minimal template structure.

What authentication type is chosen for the project in the video?

What is the significance of choosing minimal APIs over traditional controllers in the context of the video?