Question

Okay, so I am trying to get my controller to go to the Error.cshtml under the Shared folder on error. I’ve got the filter configured at startup:

Global.asax

protected void Application_Start()
{
    ...
    FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
    ...
}

FilterConfig.cs

public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
{
    filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
}

HomeController.cs

[HandleError(View = "Error")] <---- I have the HandleError attribute
public class HomeController : Controller
{
    IDbConnection _connection = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ConnectionString);

    [Authorize]
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        // get the users current events
        try
        {
            ViewBag.UserEvents = _connection.Query<MyEvents>("select ...)", new { });
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw new HttpException(500, ex.Message);
        }

        return View();
    }
    ...
}

And so when the Index method is throwing an exception because I didn’t open the connection, it just gives me the default ASP.NET exception page. What did I miss here?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Are you by any chance running this on your local machine? HandleError by default doesn’t show errors on the local machine if you have customErrors set to Off or RemoteOnly. Set it to On.