Chapter 15. Extreme ASP.NET 4.0
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Extensibility is a driving force of ASP.NET, and this chapter is composed of different techniques used to implement advanced—and probably extreme—ASP.NET-based features.
We described HttpModules and HttpHandlers in chapter 1 from an architectural point of view. In this chapter, we’ll use them to implement common strategies in websites; for example, we’ll look at error handling, which is fundamental for both security and troubleshooting. We’ll use multithreading techniques to increase performance in specific scenarios. Finally, we’ll talk about how HttpRuntime extensibility can address your remaining needs, letting you store your own source in any non-conventional storage, such as a database or even remote servers.
This chapter and the next are the last in the book, and we’ve already covered everything you’ll see from now on, to some degree, in the previous chapters. This chapter, in particular, is organized to show you advanced topics related to HttpRuntime and multithreading. If you need out-of-the-ordinary techniques in your application, this chapter is for you.