Asp.Net Web API Error: The 'ObjectContent`1' type failed to serialize the response body for content type 'application/xml; charset=utf-8'

Question

Simplest example of this, I get a collection and try to output it via Web API:

// GET api/items
public IEnumerable Get()
{
    return MyContext.I         


        

Answer 1

I just disabled proxy classes on a per needed basis:

    // GET: ALL Employee
    public IEnumerable Get()
    {
        using (AdventureWorks_MBDEV_DW2008Entities entities = new AdventureWorks_MBDEV_DW2008Entities())
        {
            entities.Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;
            return entities.DimEmployees.ToList();
        }
    }