Using WebAPI or MVC to return JSON in ASP.NET

Question

I\'m building an ASP.NET MVC application that is client-script heavy, it will use JSON and jQuery to manipulate the DOM.

My understanding is both Web API Con

Answer 1

The only concern I have with ApiController is that it is site-based not area-based. One site can only have one apicontroller subfolder for you to name your controller methods. There are situations you might want to duplicate controller name in different areas :

domain.com/api/area1/controller1/

domain.com/api/area2/controller1/

I remember there are some custom code settings to be able to do this but it does not work by default.