WebApi's {“message”:“an error has occurred”} on IIS7, not in IIS Express

Question

I\'m working with ASP.NET MVC 4 WebApi and am having a lot of fun with it running it on my local computer on IIS Express. I\'ve configured IIS Express to serve remote machi

Answer 1

My swagger XML file was not deployed into \bin:

GlobalConfiguration.Configuration
  .EnableSwagger(c =>
  {
    c.SingleApiVersion("v1", "SwaggerDemoApi");
    c.IncludeXmlComments(string.Format(@"{0}\bin\SwaggerDemoApi.XML", 
                         System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory));
    c.DescribeAllEnumsAsStrings();
  })

http://wmpratt.com/swagger-and-asp-net-web-api-part-1/

It had to be set in the Release Configuration as well as in the Debug Configuration.