Episode 2
Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI
May 14th, 2025
29 mins 32 secs
About this Episode
OpenAPI is the framework of choice for documenting APIs

OpenAPI support in ASP.NET Core API apps
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/overview?view=aspnetcore-9.0
Generate OpenAPI documents at build-time
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#generate-openapi-documents-at-build-time
The project file property to set the directory where the OpenAPI should be saved is “OpenApiDocumentsDirectory” and it is documented here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#modifying-the-output-directory-of-the-generated-open-api-file
This section contains a summary of how C# types and attributes map to OpenAPI schemas.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/include-metadata?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=minimal-apis#include-openapi-metadata-for-data-types
We talked about the OpenAPI specification — the latest version is here:
https://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.1.1.html
I also briefly touched on the Overlay specification — that is here:
https://spec.openapis.org/overlay/v1.0.0.html
and the Arazzo Specification — that is here:
https://spec.openapis.org/arazzo/v1.0.1.html
The Roadmap for ASP.NET Core features in .NET 10 is here:
https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/59443