This is an example ASP.NET MVC 5 Web API 2 application with AutoFac for IoC. I wanted to create an example application to demonstrate the way I develop web applications using Microsoft technologies. The Web API application is called RESTful Radio API.

Used the following NuGet packages:

• NUnit 3
• Moq
• BDD based on NUnit 3
• SpecFlow 2 for acceptance testing
• SpecFlow.NUnit
• AutoFac for Inversion of Control using the Dependency Injection and Service Locator pattern
• AutoFac.MVC5
• Owin
• AutoFac.Owin
• Microsoft.Owin.Testing for running the Open Web Interface for .NET inside SpecFlow
• ASP.NET MVC 5
• ASP.NET Web API 2 for the RESTful endpoints
• Swashbuckle Swagger
• Newtonsoft.Json
• Entity Framework 6
• FluentMigrator
• FluentMigrator.Tools

Used the following products and development tools:

• C# 6.0
• Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
• SQL Server 2014 Express Edition
• .NET Framework 4.5.2
• JetBrains ReSharper 10
• ReSharper.StyleCop extension
• StyleCop
• ReSharper Cyclomatic Complexity extension
• CodeMaid Visual Studio extension
• Entity Framework Reverse POCO generator
• T4 Toolbox for Visual Studio 2015

ReSharper

I have also included my ReSharper templates for generating migrations and unit-test classes.

Please use the _CreateExampleDatabase.sql script in the ExampleApplication.Database project to create the database before compiling/running the database migrations.

ExampleApplication.Database has the following MSBuild Task added to the .csproj file to run database migrations every time the project is compiled. All the SQL files bar _CreateExampleDatabase.sql are set as Embedded Resource so FluentMigrator can find them.

<UsingTask TaskName="FluentMigrator.MSBuild.Migrate" AssemblyFile="..\packages\FluentMigrator.Tools.1.6.1\tools\AnyCPU\40\FluentMigrator.MSBuild.dll" />
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
  <Migrate Database="SqlServer2014" Connection="ExampleDatabase" Target=".\bin\ExampleApplication.Database.dll">
  </Migrate>
</Target>

Thanks for checking it out. I hope it helps to serve as an example on how to develop RESTful applications using AutoFac, Web API 2 and FluentMigrator.

Kind regards
Raf