HttpGet Attribute not usable when including the System.Web.Mvc libraries

Question

I am writing a Web API which differentiates between HttpGet and HttpPost request types. I just added the System.Web.Mvc and System.Web.Mvc.Ajax namespaces to the project, and my ability to define HttpGet and HttpPost disappears. It can't find the attributes anymore.

What's goin' on?

Answer 1

Are you including both the System.Web.Http and System.Web.Mvc namespaces in the same file?

I can't think of a lot of good reasons why you would want to do that, but if you are, then you need to add the full namespace. See below for an example. Since both the Mvc and Http namespaces have a HttpGet and HttpPost, you need to specify which one to use.