GlobalConfiguration.Configure() not present after Web API 2 and .NET 4.5.1 migration

Question

I recently started following this guide to migrate my project to .NET 4.5.1 and Web Api 2.

The very first thing MS developer Rick Anderson asks you to do is change:<

Answer 1

My problem was that the nuget package manager did not do a real update but the files contained references to older versions, so i first removed all the installed mvc related packages (including razor and web api) then installed them over again and updating the version of the razor in views/web.config to version 3.0.0.