
January 8, 2026 08:34 by
Peter
Why is this necessary?
Let's examine the picture that follows.

You can see that there is a corresponding controller action for every view in the image above. There is only one line of code in each of these activities. In actuality, the exact same line of code appears in each of these activities. Furthermore, this is totally superfluous. When you receive hundreds or thousands of views, just think of what you will do. Will you produce thousands or hundreds of controller actions? Of certainly not, but how can we make it right?

When we try to launch an action on a controller that doesn't exist (or when we request a view that doesn't have a corresponding action method), the MVC Framework's controller class contains a method called HandleUnknownAction().

Now we are taking advantage of the HandleUnknownAction() method to render views even when a corresponding controller method does not exist. In the image above you can see we don't have Post5.cshtml, so when I tried to access the Post5.cshtml view, it shows the following error.

Here's how to utilize a straightforward try-catch block to fix this problem and reroute the user to a PageNotFound view.
