title: Add existing Web Api project to existing Mvc project
body: <p>I have two projects in my solution, a mvc project and a web api project. What is the best way to go about utilizing the web api project within the mvc application?</p>
  
  <p>Options that I have come up with so far:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Deploy both projects and use a helper class to interact with the api (javascript or server side)</li>
  <li>Add reference to web api project which adds api functionality to mvc project (not sure how to integrate api project into mvc project correctly, how would I do this?)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>If there is a better alternative please share.</p>