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Is there a way to return the same view every time a HttpNotFoundResult is returned from a controller? How do you specify this view? I'm guessing configuring a 404 page in the web.config might work, but I wanted to know if there was a better way to handle this result.
Edit / Follow up:
I ended up using the solution found in the second answer to this question with some slight tweaks for ASP.Net MVC 3 to handle my 404s: How can I properly handle 404s in ASP.Net MVC?
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This process determines which view file is used based on the view name. The default behavior of the View method ( return View(); ) is to return a view with the same name as the action method from which it's called.
To return a view from the controller action method, we can use View() method by passing respective parameters. return View(“ViewName”) – returns the view name specified in the current view folder (view extension name “.
HttpNotFoundResult class and HttpNotFound() method are easy ways how to let server and browser know that resource asked by visitor is not found. It is also important information for search engine spiders because they are able to correct their indexes based on that information.
When you set Action's return type ActionResult , you can return any subtype of it e.g Json,PartialView,View,RedirectToAction.
HttpNotFoundResult doesn't render a view. It simply sets the status code to 404 and returns an empty result which is useful for things like AJAX but if you want a custom 404 error page you could throw new HttpException(404, "Not found") which will automatically render the configured view in web.config:
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