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Murugan Andezuthu Dharmaratnam | calendar 30 September 2020 | 1794

In this post, we will look at how to handle asp .net 404 error in asp .net MVC application. Generally, a 404 error has to be returned if the URL does not match any route in the routing table or when a suitable controller is not found or controller action is not found. In my case, I wanted to return page not found exception when the parameter id is not found in the database. So I had to return a 404 error from my action method.

Solution: ASP.NET MVC 3

HttpNotFoundResult action result as introducted in asp .net MVC 3.0 which could be used to throw an exception from your code which can be done using HttpNotFound(). 

public ActionResult MyActionMethod()
{
    // Your code here 
    return HttpNotFound();
}

Solution: Prior to MVC 3

Prior to asp.net MVC 3 you had to raise an HttpException like in the code below. 

throw new HttpException(404, "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");