Develop a HttpHandler with full IntelliSense

HttpHandlers

TrackBack — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:44:00 GMT

Bertrand LeRoy illustrates how easy (well, relatively) it is in Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005 to create HttpHandlers (.ashx files). Ease of development aside, he points out that handlers are a comparatively less-understood feature in ASP.NET. He says: "T ...

re: Develop a HttpHandler with full IntelliSense

Salman — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:40:00 GMT

Yup its Rob Howard. Jeff P., download the latest version of CS and you will see that code snipped.

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Jeff Parker — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:16:00 GMT

Hah, yes you are correct Rob Howard. My Bad, well we both knew who I meant anyway.

re: Develop a HttpHandler with full IntelliSense

Bertrand Le Roy — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:56:00 GMT

I think the guy you're looking for is Rob Howard. Ron Howard is the bald guy who makes movies and used to play Richie Cunningham in Happy Days.
You can get in touch with Rob on his blog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/

re: Develop a HttpHandler with full IntelliSense

Jeff Parker — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:18:00 GMT

Handlers are a great thing, I do wish they were more documented. But you can offload a lot of time comsuming processing to Handlers. I wish I could find the article on MSDN somewhere that shows how to use a threaded timer in a HttpHandler to do the heavy lifting of a website things like email and so on, It was written by one of the guys working on ASP.NET a knowledgable guy by the name of Ron Howard.
He touches on this technique in this article below but he has a complete write up on it somewhere.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspnet/html/asp11022004.asp

But you can use handlers for security as well this is one of the things like I said that has great potential unfortunately so very lightly documented http://www.dotnetspider.com/technology/kbpages/1011.aspx