I was exploring the new ASP.NET Core from Microsoft and being on a Mac, to start things off, I was following this guide, which includes setting up .NET Core and Visual Studio Code with the C# extension + scaffolding a template project using Yeoman. Pretty simple and works out of the box. Now, to get going with Web API, the next guide would be https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/tutorials/first-web-api.html. However, this is based on Visual Studio 2015, where there are ready-made templates for a Web API project. I continued using the guide with my Yeoman template to see how far it would take me. Turns out that I got pretty far, by just following the examples. The first thing that hit me was the change in the ConfigureServices file, namely the services.AddMvc(); method. There was no notion of a MVC-framework in the generated Yeoman code, and I had to add "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "1.0.0" to project.json to make it compile. To finally get the application to ...