Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

WebApiConfig.cs

This class provides the information for Web API-related configuration, including specific Web API routes, services, and other settings:

Figure 6: The WebApiConfig.cs file in Solution Explorer

Here, we will define how to handle null values at the time of the deserialization of objects and we will also define the routes. Instead of calling Routes.MapRoutes, as in the MVC RouteConfig class, we instead call Config.Routes.MapHttpRoutes using the following code:

// Web API routes             config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();             config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(             name: "DefaultApi",             routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",  defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional ...