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.

Figure 1. The new ASP.NET Web application project. Then select MVC for the ASP.NET project type, as seen in Figure 2. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 2. The new ASP.NET MVC project. Let's ...

The .NET 4.5 Framework introduced the new async/await asynchronous programming model. With ASP.NET MVC 4 comes the application of the async/await model to controller actions. A traditional ASP.NET MVC ...