Generic Error Page Asp.net
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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up How do I make a “generic error” page in my ASP.NET application so that it handles errors triggered when serving that page itself? up vote 4 down vote favorite 2 In my ASP.NET MVC application I want to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397417.aspx have a generic error page that is showed together with returning HTTP 500. Something like this page on Stack Overflow. Of course I'd like to reuse as much code as possible so that the page is styled the same way as other pages in my application, so I want to have an ASP.NET page reusing the master pages, not a plain HTML file. However if I do so I have a page that contains some server-side executable code for creating actual HTML http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10751363/how-do-i-make-a-generic-error-page-in-my-asp-net-application-so-that-it-handle served to the client. In case of Stack Overflow generic error page it's the code checking whether the user is registered, retrieving his rep, etc, and inserting elements for that into HTML. That code can fail and if that happens the page isn't properly constructed and an exception is thrown in the server. How do I handle that situation (error when building HTML for the error page) gracefully? What's the typical approach? asp.net .net iis error-handling share|improve this question edited May 25 '12 at 9:12 asked May 25 '12 at 8:54 sharptooth 109k50317709 asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/deployment/… –Jason Evans May 25 '12 at 9:14 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 6 down vote I like to start by categorize the possible errors. Categorize the errors. Page Not Found (this is full my log). Breaking parameters of the page by trying to hack it Error from wrong user data input. Totally Unknown error - a new bug that we must fix. a Very hard General error - nothing runs - eg, database is not opens at all. Our Goal To now show the error page, but only in rare cases. So when user make actions with out page, we try to capture all wrong input of the user, and show him what to do to continue with out any error. Global Error Handler You can start by capture on global.asax all errors using the void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e) void Application_Error(object s
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/343014/asp-net-custom-error-page-server-getlasterror-is-null this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up generic error ASP.NET custom error page - Server.GetLastError() is null up vote 96 down vote favorite 31 I have a custom error page set up for my application: