An error occurred when trying to create a controller of type 'AlbumsController'. Make sure that the controller has a parameterless public constructor.

By any chance if you see below error, please use below resolving instruction to overcome.

An error occurred when trying to create a controller of type 'AlbumsController'. Make sure that the controller has a parameterless public constructor.

System.InvalidOperationException

at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.DefaultHttpControllerActivator.Create(HttpRequestMessage request, HttpControllerDescriptor controllerDescriptor, Type controllerType) at System.Web.Http.Controllers.HttpControllerDescriptor.CreateController(HttpRequestMessage request) at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.SendAsyncCore(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.<SendAsync>d__0.MoveNext()

Type 'AlbumsController' does not have a default constructor

How to resolve

Nothing serious you just missed to write couple lines of code. The real cause is that you are trying to use Unity's auto-wiring capabilities to create the DbContext. DbContext is a special type that shouldn't be auto-wired. It is a framework type and you should therefore fallback to registering it using a factory delegate:

unity.RegisterType<AlbumsController>();

unity.RegisterType<IAlbumRepository, AlbumRepository>(new HierarchicalLifetimeManager());

This code generally sits into UnityConfig.cs file, but this depends on your solution completely.

Hope this helps.