ASP.NET MVC 4 - Exception Handling Not Working

Question

When an error occurs in my ASP.NET MVC 4 application, I would like to customize a view for the user depending on the type of error. For example, page not found or an except

Answer 1

I faced a similar problem and lost sometime trying to work out what was going on. So just in case any others face a similar problem here is what my problem was.

The error page was trying to use my _Layout page. Just ensure that you Error.cshtml page has

@{ Layout = null; }