Why is the Web Api returning empty json results with “$ref=”?

Question

I disabled lazy loading and proxy creation in EF5 before returning any results in the Web Api. Everything worked fine. However, when i start to Include() other

Answer 1

You can also disable lazyloading if you have to serialize your EF entities. it's worked for me.

Go to the context.cs file under your edmx file and add this Line in the constructor.

this.Configuration.LazyLoadingEnabled = false;