ASP.NET Web API binding with ninject

Question

I have just installed the mvc4 rc update and I am trying to build an api application with little luck.

I am using ninject but cant get my controllers to load. I keep

Answer 1

For someone landing here while searching '...does not have a default constructor' looking for an easy way to debug silently failing configurations:

1. Remove constructor-injected objects until the constructor can be invoked
2. For each of the previously injected, now uninitialized objects, invoke using:

ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<[OBJ-TYPE]>()

The offending object will cause an ActivationException with a descriptive Message. You'll have something to go for.

Remember to remove call to ServiceLocator post-fix. Ie. this is not a recommendation to use the service locator anti pattern outside debugging.