Handle validation failures myself in ASP.NET MVC

Question

We all know that familiar ASP.NET error page that we see many times during development. To keep a consistent feel to my site, I\'d rather the user not see those errors, and hand

Answer 1

Create a single base controller. Add [ValidateInput(false)] to the controller class:

 [ValidateInput(false)]
 public class BaseController : Controller
 {

 }

And then update every controller to inherit from it:

 public class HomeController : BaseController
 {

 }

I don't suggest turning off Request Validation myself but if you must, you can.