Returning HttpResponse Message the right way

Working with HttpResponseMessage can be tricky. How do you return HttpResponseMessage as string or HttpResponseMessage as Json message.

return new HttpResponseMessage( HttpStatusCode.OK ) {Content =  new StringContent( "Your message here" ) };




As for Json message

return new HttpResponseMessage( HttpStatusCode.OK ) {Content =  new StringContent( SerializedString, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "application/json" ) };