I thought I'd generate a fresh Web API project from the template to see what it looks like, and I eventually find it under ASP MVC 4. I do so and get 143 files in 20 folders. There are scripts, images, cshtml files, style sheets and lord knows what. What is all this sh*t just to make a http service?
I expected to get a concise little project with some skeleton files but I get this gigantic schmozzle. Are you telling me that a Web API project is wrapped-up inside the circus of the ASP MVC framework? Am I expected to delete all the irrelevent files and strip it back to a simple service without a UI, or is there a simpler way of creating a Web API project from scratch? Greg P.S. Silverlight still works best with WCF. You could make http requests from Silverlight, but it's all typeless. I'm not sure if there is some trick to make them work together more pleasantly.
