HotTowel - unable to upgrade to webapi 2 (vs2013)

Question

I have upgraded to Visual Studio 2013, and naturally I wanted to upgrade HotTowel, Breeze and all the other friends to also support MVC5, WebApi2, EF6 etc.

After a lot of back and forth, I have managed to update to WebApi2 and Breeze for WebApi2 + EF6. But HotTowel struggles.

I am unable to get HotTowel back, because it kicks in the Package Manager Console with the message: install-package : Already referencing a newer version of 'Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi'

What does that mean? On the nuget page it says that it depends on: Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi (≥ 4.0.30506.0). My version of webapi is 5.x.x which is over the required 4.0xx.

Can anyone help me get HotTowel back?

Thanks.

Answer 1

So it all depends on where you are now. I suggest removing the packages and dll's and starting fresh. Start with a clean project and install-package hottowel.angular. If you want to try to piecemeal it together, it can work but it may be more painful.

If you started with the older hottowel, asp.net web api 2 broke it. SO the newest one uses the latest features. If you want web api v2, use hottowel.angular.breeze.

The issue is not HotTowel, its the incompat with Web Api 2 and some other MSFT features.

For more details, see this link: http://www.johnpapa.net/hottowel-angular-and-asp-net-web-api-2-compat/