If you don’t need the full ASP.NET MVC 4 installer with project and item templates for Visual Studio 2010 then you can download the various ASP.NET Web API packages directly from NuGet (see list of packages below). If you are new to NuGet then it is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to add, remove, and update libraries and tools in Visual Studio projects that use the .NET Framework (check out the NuGet overview).

NuGet Packages

Here are the relevant NuGet packages depending on what you want to build:

  1. Web API hosted in ASP.NET: AspNetWebApi
  2. Self-hosted Web API: AspNetWebApi.Selfhost
  3. HttpClient including XML and JSON formatters: System.Net.Http.Formatting
  4. JsonValue for navigating and manipulating JSON: System.Json

Additional Information

  1. Release notes for installation instructions and to find out what’s new.
  2. ASP.NET Web API home complete with docs, samples, tutorials and videos.

Have fun!

Henrik

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