I've got a web app that requires a user to specify the path to a datasource (xml) file for processing. Instead of doing a file-upload inside of an ASP.Net page and actually transferring the XML file ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.

If you want to build a Web application quickly, do it with ASP.NET Web Forms. However, you have to be willing to give up a lot: client-side coding and Ajax is more awkward in Web Forms than MVC, you ...