Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the ASP.NET Web development platform. We saw how to leverage the infrastructure provided by the ASP.NET page framework to help us write sophisticated and dynamic Web applications. We examined how the request pipeline is constructed and how we can create our own IHttpHandlers to process requests and IHttpModules to participate in the request pipeline. You also learned how to use events that are exposed on the page so that you can easily add your application logic directly to the page, where we also are using the power of the ASP.NET declarative syntax to build pages with server controls.

You saw how easy it is to leverage the built-in controls of ASP.NET to provide wizard-type functionality that can gather data from the user, control page execution in code, and add controls to pages dynamically. The page framework is the foundation on which we can rapidly develop rich Web applications that take advantage of the powerful libraries of the .NET Framework.