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What the elephant were MS thinking when they created the ASP.NET Web API project template? Even on v2, your API comes with client side scripts, views, stylesheets, and fonts, and when the API gets an exception, its response is an elephantine HTML page! 
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Brady Kelly wrote: What the elephant were MS thinking when they created the ASP.NET Web API project template? Even on v2, your API comes with client side scripts, views, stylesheets, and fonts,
It might have something to do with creating customized help pages, etc.
Brady Kelly wrote: and when the API gets an exception, its response is an elephantine HTML page!
Um, you can work with an exception in code (try/catch, etc.) work with the http response, etc. ASP.Net throws all unhandled exceptions to a page, don't they? So, why would a "web" API be any different?
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It definitely should be different, otherwise the would not be different application types for web sites and for APIs. The global error response for an API should be in JSON, or at worst XML. An API shouldn't have any 'pages' at all, custom or not.
One is designed for human consumption, and the other not. Give each something they can more easily understand.
For reasons of lengthy explanation, my attempted try-catch inside an async action method was never hit.
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I have worked on Web API's extensively for over 3 years now, and have not had any issues or complaints that were bad enough for me, to come to codeproject with. Just saying... 
I understand you are frustrated, and you are just venting. 
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All I wanted was a "therefore" symbol.
So I went to programs > accessories, to find that the only accessory you get, with winio, is IE (so they've installed two, count 'em, Internet browsers that I will never use). No character looker-upper thing.
I had to search for the damned thing (by typing its name into a little white box), which became much easier when I finally remembered that it's called CharMap.exe.
I went through several fonts (including the wingdings, symbol, and marlett), but couldn't find (or couldn't see) the therefore symbol.
By then, almost ten minutes had been consumed, when all I wanted to do was type a single character, so I was getting a tad peeved.
... So I opened CP, and copied it out of @W∴ Balboos' username.
Let's see you get that kind of context-specific help from SE!
Um, or SO, either...
[edit: fixed the @ linky thing]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 29-Oct-16 5:18am.
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enable touch screen and try drawing it with your finger .... nope, doesn't work either.
w10: the 'new lava lamp.'
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What font were you trying to use? Arial (the default in CharMap) doesn't have it (for some strange reason), but Cambria Math (should be available) does.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I can.t even find it Cambria Nath. Snowblind, by now.
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Open CharMap, tick the 'Advanced View' checkbox at the bottom, and use the new edit area at the bottom to search for characters. Quite easy.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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???
What am I supposed to type in as a search string, if I can't type the character?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The name of the character, e.g. 'Therefore' (without quotes)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Cannot reproduce. It tells me "No Character Available"(sic).
"One windows", eh?
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Plus 1 for YOU, never knew I could do it that way!
AND it does "contains" type search.
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Um...I opened a new tab, typed "therefore symbol", Google suggested "therefore symbol alt code", one click: ALT+8756
And it doesn't work... 
The HTML code does though: ∴ ∴
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I wasn't typing into a browser -- opening another tab would just have given me another text file.
OriginalGriff wrote: one click: ALT+8756
And it doesn't work...
Did you try using the right-hand Alt key and the numeric keyboard, while standing on one leg, drinking a glass of water upside down, and reciting the alphabet backwards?
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No, I only do that when writing VB code.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's the only way I can get VB to work, too.
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Charmap is still in windows 10., sorry didn't read that bit in your message!
Also, I just asked Cortana (spoken) "Symbol for Therefore" and it popped up a browser with the key info from wiki in a box and showed the Therefore and Because symbols complete with unicodes.
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DaveAuld wrote: just asked Cortana (spoken) "Symbol for Therefore" and it popped up a browser with the key info from wiki in a box and showed the Therefore and Because symbols complete with unicodes, reported to the NSA that I was researching the use of strange symbols to hide the meanings of my (possibly terr'r'rist) messages, informed Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and nine other web-stores that I wanted to be flooded with news of great products that have the word "therefore" somewhere in the documentation associated with them, and informed microsoft that I am someeone who uses mathematical terms, so I therefore need to be approached about buying their new PC that is targetted exclusively at graphic artists .
I decided I could live without cortana.
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Doesn't understand British West Country accents. 
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I always look for that when discussing the A∴A∴, or Astrum Argenteum magical order, but all I have to do is google them, the copy and paste, like I just did. Easy peasy.
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Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing.
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Great resource. Thanks!
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A very useful site! Cheers!
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