I am trying to add some WebAPI support to my asp.net 4 RC site, and wish to put it into an area. I have seen that someone managed to get this running on the beta (here) ,
Just for completion, the following attributes exists, which could help people out of a bind (who won't follow eric's advice above...)
[Route ("api/interesting/{id?}")] [RoutePrefix("api/interesting")]
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/attribute-routing-in-web-api-2