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.

While security in ASP.NET Core is wholly claims based, you can still use the Authorize attribute to control access to your application. You just need to set up the right policies to work with the ...