Pure asp.net Web API application

Question

I created a new project based on the Web API template, but found that it include a lot of unnecessary files that I don't need such as the regular mvc routes, css, js, cshtml files. I wanted a pure asp.net Web API application, What can I delete from this project template?

Answer 1

This is pretty annoying - there is no "empty" template for WebAPI by default so you have to delete the following:

• /Areas/
• /Content/
• /Images/
• /Scripts/
• /Views/
• favicon.ico

This should leave you with the default generated Controllers and App_Start folders which, along with the Global.asax & Web.Config is the only thing you really need for a plain WebAPI project.

I haven't tried this, but it claims to provide a real empty WebAPI template: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a989a149-4bc3-4292-ac8a-5101ee1722d7