
A good question came up today that I couldn't answer immediately: how do you return a 500 Server Error (or any other [HTTP Status Code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes "List of HTTP status codes on Wikipedia")) from ASP.NET MVC?

Thankfully, it's extremely simple; all you have to do is return a new [HttpStatusCodeResult](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.httpstatuscoderesult(v=vs.98) "HttpStatusCodeResult Class on MSDN") with whatever code you'd like:

``` csharp
return new HttpStatusCodeResult(500);
```

"500" can be replaced with whatever [HTTP Status Code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes "List of HTTP status codes on Wikipedia") you'd like.

Reference: [HttpStatusCodeResult Class on MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.httpstatuscoderesult(v=vs.98) "HttpStatusCodeResult Class on MSDN")


Return a 500 Error in ASP.NET MVC