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.

Ensure that “No Authentication” is selected as we won’t be using authentication either. Click OK. This will create a new ASP.Net Core Web API project in Visual Studio.

In the new .NET 8 Preview 3, Microsoft introduced initial support for native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation in the framework's web-dev component, ASP.NET Core.