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It might be an obvious thing to do, but sometimes you miss the most obvious approaches…

Instead of repeatedly typing (copy and pasting!) [Filter(ExecuteEnum.BeforeAction, typeof(AuthenticationFilter)] for every controller you want to apply (in my case) the AuthenticationFilter to, spend 5 minutes building a custom attribute to do the work for you (I place these attribute classes in the same file as the filter):

public class ApplyAuthenticationFilterAttribute : FilterAttribute
{
    public ApplyAuthenticationFilterAttribute() : base ( ExecuteEnum.BeforeAction, typeof(AuthenticationFilter)
    {
    }
}

Now you leverage the IDE to do all the work for you (intellisense and code completion are the smart programmers copy / paste), and even if you only use it on one base controller, you still get the benefit of a nice attribute that you don’t even have to think about to understand…

[ApplyAuthenticationFilter]
public class MyController : Controller
{
    ...
}

vs

[Filter(ExecuteEnum.BeforeAction, typeof(AuthenticationFilter)]
public class MyController : Controller
{
    ...
}

The same approach can be used with layouts and rescues making your controllers “read” nicely

[UseDefaultLayout, UseGeneralError, ApplyAuthenticationFilter]
public class MyController : Controller
{
    ...
}