Dustin Horne

Developing for fun...

Dynamic Custom Error Pages in ASP.NET MVC 2

Recently, I had to implement a dynamic custom 404 error page in an ASP.NET MVC2 website.  My first instinct was to turn CustomErrors mode on and setup a 404 Error, but this failed to return my custom error page in a shared hosting environment and instead displayed the default IIS 404 page.  I'll walk you through fixing this in just a minute, but for now I want to show you how to create the custom 404 page. More...