Explore, Test, & Debug API Endpoints in Visual Studio Faster Than Ever!

The Endpoints Explorer is a new preview feature that we are working on to enable you to view and interact with the API endpoints defined in the solution in Visual Studio. Easily explorer, generate test code, navigate to code, and more with this new feature that you are going to love!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - All the new VS features for API
01:35 - Project Overview & Enable API Explorer
03:30 - Exploring API Explorer
05:25 - Generating Requests
07:20 - Features, Limitations, What's Next
09:52 - Wrap-up

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[Veretax]

so It seems you can create an http file, and make a request and it will show the response to you. You don't have to have the api running locally to do it.

I wonder what guardrails exist to prevent 'overquerying' while building though.

[macmcmillen]

Are these new features also available on the Mac version of Visual Studio?

[imSkod]

would be cool with an AI integrated into VS, being able to make a json body for a POST with the right datatypes, creating dummy data with a click of a button too.

[speakoutloud]

Man I just found this channel, and damn already watched a few videos! You got me for every new upcoming video.

[wvvwwwvvw]

Only the button to "generate all" is missing now.

[teddycat]

i cant find any maui tutorial on BLE ... lmao

[Mariobot]

Wow so cool video. I'm subscribe now to get ready with your future videos. Thanks for share.

[rabosa]

I would like to see 2 features:
1) Instead of all calls one after each oder, would be nice to have lika a tree, For each Controller.
2) Support for Azure Functions or Aws Lambda Functions.

[BryonLape]

If you don't put the bugs in your code in the first place, you don't have to spend time finding them.

[basselsafadi]

upgraded to VS 17.6.2 (no preview) but the endpoint explorer option is missing!!! anyone knows why? perhaps they changed their mind about this option in the release version?

[Drewriders]

but you can't walk thru the code which is what i need

[prathameshshende]

I'm uninstalling the postman and removing the swagger. The issue I always get in post cannot put config and api collection in git and also it needs to use separate software outside the vs.

Swagger is the best tool to view apis. But it will lag when you have too much api collection and also hopeless ui design.

For me, this solution best🎉❤ thanks VS Team.

[RaabStephan]

Any tips on being able to handle Lucene operations. Trying to build a robust API that can get Lucene operations and then talk to SQL or CosmoDB

[austinnguyen]

Post/put should scaffold an empty json object or have intellisense in the api explorer.

[HakeemOriola]

It’s like vs4mac is forgotten whenever new feature comes up😢

[BrendanAlexander]

Excellent video James...as usual. I upgraded to the preview and opened the Endpoints Explorer and...sad trombone. My webapi projects are listed, but no endpoints are shown. Checked the docs and didnt see any special configuration needed.

[montanomariano]

It’s really cool! One thing to improve in my opinion, it would be great if the request generator created a basic empty template of the body or query params.

[austinnguyen]

Would be nice to have a search function within the api explorer. Same for swagger.

[mooi]

is it this better than Postman for testing?

[peterclaver]

Hey Endpoints are brilliant, but my pc is dead can you help get one