I recently stumbled across something with ASP.NET MVC action filters where they weren’t being executed in quite the order I was expecting. More specifically, I had made a poor assumption that filters defined at the Controller level would all execute prior to any action-level filters. After all, that was the behavior I thought I had seen before, but it turned out that it worked a bit differently. In this post I will explore exactly how ASP.NET MVC finds and orders filters, and what your options are for working with it.
