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Aggregators & HttpHandlers

Today marks the seventh day I have been using SharpReader as my aggregator. I just have to say that this is one neat tool. I have grown quite partial to the interface over the last few days, and I will probably use it exclusivly until something better comes along.

Scott mentioned incremental RSS feeds and posted some code to evaluate which headers that aggregators are submitting. This reminds me of something that I find very lacking in VS.NET. Don't get me wrong; I love VS.NET and I think its a fantastic development tool, but how, oh how, could MS totally omit HttpHandler support from it? at least give my syntax hilighting & IntelliSense for .ashx files... Please!

Anyway, I don't suppose the folks in Redmond are mind readers (yet), so I finally shot off my little request to mswish@microsoft.com about this issue.

Who knows... Maybe Nikhil has another surprise in store for us in the next Web Matrix release.

Comments

Chad Osgood said:

You could always just create a class that derives from HttpHandler, compile the assembly, and deploy it to the bin directory. I prefer this over using a .ashx anyway...
# May 26, 2003 4:07 PM

Nikhil Kothari said:

Check out sneak peak #3... :-)
# May 27, 2003 11:50 PM
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