I created an online service at https://spjeff.azurewebsites.net/ which generates a MVC WebAPI 2.2 project with the name you enter.   A custom ZIP file is generated server side with your custom name for the Project, Namespaces, Assembly, and sent to the browser for download.   Best practices are already enabled such as:

• [CORS] decorator
• [Authorize] decorator
• Minimal packages and dependency
• Zero MVC boilerplate
• Lean mean API ready for dev & prod

From there double click SLN and begin coding.  Enjoy! 

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Online WebAPI Generator from Jeff Jones on Vimeo.

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