What is an HttpHandler in ASP.NET? Why and how is it used?

After reading a lot of stuff about nodejs, I still ask my self : What are the benefits over asp.net HttpAsync requests ? The only limitation ( as I see) is the concurrent number of requests whic...

I've tried to set the executionTimeout in the web.config file: <compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.5"> <httpRuntime executionTimeout="30"/> Looking at the IIS Manager Reque...

Since the very begining of writing ASP.NET applications when I wanted to add a threading there are 3 simple ways I can accomplish threading within my ASP.NET application : Using the System.Thread...

I'm working on creating an async handler for ASP.NET that will execute a slow stored procedure. I think I understand that to gain additional throughput on a mixed load of slow and fast pages, the s...

Here's the basic setup. We have an ASP.Net WebForms application with a page that has a Flash application that needs to access an external Web Service. Due to (security I presume) limitations in Fla...

What is the best method for uploading files of variable size (either very large or very small to an ASP.NET MVC 2 application file system)? This is what I understand so far: It seems like there...

I have noticed that the .NET IHttpAsyncHandler (and the IHttpHandler, to a lesser degree) leak memory when subjected to concurrent web requests. In my tests, the Visual Studio web server (Cassini)...

I'm currently developing a custom HttpHandler (for compressing/combining CSS, but that doesn't matter for this question). I started with a simple reusable=true synchronous HttpHandler like we all ...

I'm running into some performance issues using a generic handler that implements IHttpAsyncHandler. At its simplest, the handler receives a GET request, and 20 seconds later ends the response after...