Ninject error in WebAPI 2.1 - Make sure that the controller has a parameterless public constructor

Question

I have the following packages and their dependencies installed in my WebAPI project:

Ninject.Web.WebApi Ninject.Web.WebApi.OwinHost

Answer 1

In my case, the reason was resolver could not find a mapping. That is suppose say HomeController has a dependency on IDumb, the resolver could not find a concrete implementation of Dumb with implements IDumb. In other words the error message

**No parameterless constructor defined for this object
An error occurred when trying to create a controller of type 'ToDoListT1.WebApp.Controllers.HomeController'. Make sure that the controller has a parameterless public constructor**

is completely misleading. In my case I just resolved by adding a reference to the project of the class Dumb. It should have been something like "No mapping for IDumb could be found.". I am not sure the problem is with NInject or MS. What ever it took me hours to find this out.