Enabling documentation within WebApi2 help page

Question

I have a simple webapi2 project.

The only information I can seem to find myself refers to the older webapi1

From my controller if I have

   /// <summary>
    /// Gets a list of not very interesting information
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>The list</returns>
   [ResponseType(typeof(ExampleModel))]
    public IHttpActionResult Get()
    {
        var data = new List<ExampleModel>()
        {
            new ExampleModel()
            {
                Date = DateTime.Now,
                Name = "Tom"
            },
            new ExampleModel()
            {
                Date = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-20),
                Name = "Bob"
            }
        };

why is no information appearing when I try browse to the help page. I am told No documentation available.

Is there a magic switch somewhere that will turn on automated population of this data?

Answer 1

if you referring to displaying the xml comments, then you can find my answer here:

ASP.NET Web API Help Page documentation using Xml comments on controllers

Be sure to uncomment this code in Areas/HelpPage/App_Start/HelpPageConfig.cs

// Uncomment the following to use the documentation from XML documentation file.
config.SetDocumentationProvider(new XmlDocumentationProvider(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/XmlDocument.xml")));

Also make sure the xml file goes in App_Data not bin where it defaults to in project properties