Generate a Kiota client at build time from an ASP.NET Core OpenAPI file (opens in new tab)

In a previous post, I explained how to generate the OpenAPI document during the ASP.NET Core build and commit it to the repository. That gives you a versioned API contract that is easy to review in pull requests. In this post, let's go one step further: use that generated OpenAPI file as the input for Kiota, so your typed .NET client is also generated during build. The goal is simple: The server produces…