Why is the Visual Studio 2013 Scaffolding different (Controller vs. WebApi) ?

Question

For the normal read of all entities The Controller version is:

   public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var tmembers = db.tMembers.Include(t => t.tEducationType).Include(t => t.tRaceType).Include(t => t.tReligion);
        return View(tmembers.ToList());
    }

And the WebAPI is:

   public IQueryable<tMember> GettMembers()
    {
        return db.tMembers;
    }

Any idea why they are not the same ?

Answer 1

WebAPI returns IQueryable to support OData. If instead you want to just return JSON, set your service to serialize to JSON, and change the signature to public IEnumerable GetMembers()