March, 2011

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Visit any Barnes & Noble Booksellers store or online at http://www.bn.com/microsoft-press from March 3 through April 6, 2011, to save 40 percent on Microsoft Press books. Here’s a list of some of our developer titles you might want to purchase at this great discount: Inside the Microsoft Build Engine MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511) Programming Windows Identity Foundation Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Programming Windows Phone 7 MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-515): Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Introducing Windows 7 for Developers Windows Internals

Hi, everyone. Dino Esposito’s newest book, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 (ISBN 9780735643383; 992 pages), is now available. Take a look at this earlier post to read the book’s Introduction , which describes the book’s contents and intended audience. Today we’d like to share a chapter excerpt from the book. Enjoy. Chapter 4 HTTP Handlers, Modules, and Routing Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. —Erica Jong HTTP handlers and modules are truly the building blocks of the ASP.NET platform. Any requests for a resource managed by ASP.NET are always resolved by an HTTP handler and pass through a pipeline of HTTP modules. After the handler has processed the request, the request flows back through the pipeline...