In this article, let's learn about what is a Hosted Service and how we can create and use a Hosted Service inside ASP.NET Core with an example.

Filters are components built into the ASP.NET Core which can help us in controlling the execution of a request at specific stages of the request pipeline. These come into picture post the middleware execution, when the MVC middleware matches a Route and a specific Action is invoked.

While the terminology might seem alien to us, but at its core its just a web service which returns data from its data source in a predefined XML schema called as RSS. In this article, let's build a simple endpoint in our ASP.NET Core WebAPI which can return RSS feed from a Posts database.

In this article, let's discuss the drawbacks with the conventional MVC routing and what Endpoint Routing brings to the table in ASP.NET Core 3.1 onwards.