how to return json error msg in asp.net web api?

Question

I would like to return a json errormessage but at the moment in fiddler I cannot see this in the json panel:

string error = \"An error just happened\";
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Answer 1

JsonResult is a MVC concept. It does not work in Web API. One way to explicitly return json content is to use the class I created in this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/20504951/6819