How to return a view for HttpNotFound() in ASP.Net MVC 3?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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:

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" redirectMode="ResponseRewrite">
   <error statusCode="404" redirect="/Http404.html" />
</customErrors>