MVC4 - Web Api make work of Put and Delete methods

To use the PUT and DELETE verbs with the Web API in MVC4 

Open ApplicationHost.config from following path

%userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config 

Add the verbs to the ExtensionlessUrl handler as follows:

Change this line:

<add name="ExtensionlessUrl-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" responseBufferLimit="0"/>

to:

<add name="ExtensionlessUrl-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,PUT,DELETE" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" responseBufferLimit="0"/>

You can see we have added PUT, DELETE in Verb.

In addition to the above you should ensure WebDAV is not interfering with your requests. This can be done by commenting out the following lines from applicationhost.config.

<add name="WebDAVModule" image="%IIS_BIN%\webdav.dll" />
<add name="WebDAVModule" /> 
<add name="WebDAV" path="*" verb="PROPFIND,PROPPATCH,MKCOL,PUT,COPY,DELETE,MOVE,LOCK,UNLOCK" modules="WebDAVModule" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="None" />

Also be aware that the default Web API convention is that your method name should be the same as the invoked HTTP verb. For example if you're sending an HTTP delete request your method, by default, should be named Delete.