Enabling ASP.NET Web API Help Pages for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications

Enabling ASP.NET Web API Help Pages for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications: ASP.NET Web API Help Pages is a new preview feature that automatically generates help page style content for your Web API endpoints. You can read more about it at Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help Page and in further posts on Yao's blog. I won't revisit the basics of the feature here. Instead, what I want to focus on is bringing this new feature to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms application. Why is this worth a blog post? Well, if you look at the design of the Help Pages feature, you'll see it uses MVC. < Breaks squealing…> Uh oh. You've got a Web Forms app and this feature depends on MVC. Time to build a hybrid app! Don't fear, Web Forms and MVC work just fine together. Assuming you're starting with a Web Forms...(read more)

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