Calling Web API from MVC controller

Question

I have a WebAPI Controller within my MVC5 project solution. The WebAPI has a method which returns all files in a specific folder as a Json list:

[{\"name\":\"file

Answer 1

well, you can do it a lot of ways... one of them is to create a HttpRequest. I would advise you against calling your own webapi from your own MVC (the idea is redundant...) but, here's a end to end tutorial.