Web API in MVC Project isn't hitting breakpoints (“symbols not loaded”)

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC project, with an ASP.NET web api defined as an area in this project. So the structure is the following:

MVC Web
   Controllers
   View         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue but mine was related to the addition of a config Transform. Go to Build > Configuration Manager under Active Solution Configuration make sure you have Debug selected.