Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Step By Step

Chapter 18. Custom Handlers

In this chapter:

Handlers

Built-in Handlers

IHttpHandler

Implementing IHttpHandler

Handlers and Session State

Generic Handlers (ASHX Files)

Conclusion

Chapter 18 Quick Reference

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Recognize the role of custom handlers in ASP.NET

• Write custom binary handlers

• Write just-in-time compiled custom handlers

• Let IIS and ASP.NET know about your custom handler

This chapter covers writing custom HTTP handlers. In Chapter 2 we saw the ASP.NET pipeline. Remember that the endpoint of all requests handled by ASP.NET is always an implementation of IHttpHandler.

ASP.NET includes several classes capable of handling requests in the most common ways. For example, the Page class handles requests by interpreting ...