ASP.NET Web Application template missing in Visual Studio 2012

Question

has anyone else dealt with this? My ultimate goal is to create a new empty web api project. I\'ve been following tutorials and I\'ve encountered the following issue:

My

Answer 1

If you have ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application as an option under Web when you select it as a new project the project window pops up and you will be able to select Web API.