Enable API description information in Webapi 2 (description under Help)

Environment: Vs2013+web API 2

Issue: The new Web API 2 project, which is created by default, displays information about the API under the Help page, but the description column does not have access to the data, as shown in:

Solve:

1. Enable the output XML document file first:

On the Web API project, right-click Properties, under the "Generate" tab of the property page, tick the output below "XML document file" as shown in:

2. In the solution manager, hit HelpPageConfig.cs, remove the Setdocumentationprovider method, and change the address to correspond to 1, as shown in:

3. Add a comment to the API as shown in:

Run the project again, open the API help page and you'll see the effect as shown in:

Reference: ASP. NET Web API help Page documentation using XML comments on controllers

Enable API description information in Webapi 2 (description under Help)