I used to place my controllers into a separate Class Library project in Mvc Web Api. I used to add the following line in my web api project\'s global.asax to look for contro
You need to tell webapi/mvc to load your referrenced assembly. You do that with the compilation/assemblies section in your web.config.
Simple as that. You can do it with code the way @user1821052 suggested, but this web.config version will have the same effect.