[SOLVED] RegisterGlobalFilters and HandleErrorAttribute not working

RegisterGlobalFilters and HandleErrorAttribute not working

After struggling with RegisterGlobalFilters and HandleErrorAttribute forever I decided to go back to the bare bones. I created a new MVC 3 project in VS10, using the template. Add a throw DivideByZeroException in the About-action and fired up the dev server. Expected not to see a yellow screen.

But I did.

Why won't this work for me?

Update

archil's and Adam Tuliper's suggestion kind of worked. The Error view was called.

Then I proceed to add this in RegisterGlobalFilters.

filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute { ExceptionType = typeof(DivideByZeroException), View = "DivideByZeroException", Order = 1 });
filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute { View = "AllOtherExceptions", Order = 2 });

The AllOtherExceptions view was called. Why not the DivideByZeroException view?

The followup question has been posted here.

Solution

HandleErrorAttribute works when following conditions are met

CustomErrors is enabled in web config
If exception is HttpException, its error code is 500.

As in your case second condition is met, ensure you have custom erros turned on

<system.web>
     <customErrors mode="On"></customErrors>
</system.web>