Learn to change the default behavior and return HTTP 404 when action methods in ASP.NET Core return null values.

The gang at Microsoft has been working on the new ASP.NET MVC -- Model-View-Controller -- framework for a while. In February they announced the MVC Framework v0.

Surprisingly, although ASP.NET Core provides plenty of options for handling 404 errors gracefully, the ASP.NET Core MVC runtime doesn’t take advantage of them by default.

As a result, my dialog's HTML needs to be dynamically generated at runtime. I implement that in ASP.NET MVC by making an AJAX call back to the server, passing the relevant data from the page, and ...

Within an Action method, you'll sometimes realize that the processing you need is in some other Action method, often in the same controller. ASP.NET MVC provides a couple of ways of transferring ...