Base nuget packages for MVC and WebAPI

Started to learn MVC and WebAPI from scratch, have been working with non-web stuffs (mostly protocols and win-service) for a very long time and just want to get my head around with the Modern Microsoft way to do web stuffs using ASP.NET MVC and / or WebAPI. So I decided to add my learning notes here as Modern ASP.NET (MAN - slug) blog post series so it can help other starters to jingle and mingle with web using ASP.NET MVC and / or WebAPI. Current version of ASP.NET MVC is 5.1 and ASP.NET WebAPI is 2.1 So to answer my own question: What makes the base for any ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebAPI web application and what code base it stands on? ASP.NET MVC 5.1 I created a new ASP.NET project from Visual studio (.NET 4.5.1) and used " » Read more