Wicked ASP.NET Programming

Today was the first day of the Wicked ASP.NET Programming presented by Dino Esposito who talked about The ASP.NET Underlying Machinery. The talks were based mainly on his book Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics. HTTP runtime, runtime components and asynchronous pages were the general topics today.

The interesting things that happen behind the scenes are something the developers do not care about or simply don't know about because they are not well documented. Dino Esposito tried to unveil some of those like using HTTP modules and handlers, when and how to use them in the right way. He also talked about the asynchronous pages and benefits for the ASP.NET runtime when executing lengthy tasks through AJAX (no benefits actually ;). In future posts I'll try to summarize some important points regarding the usage of HTTP modules and handlers, ways of calling web services asynchronously, and the benefits we can gain using asynchronous pages together with AJAX.

Tomorrow Dino is going to talk about AJAX extensions. I hope to learn some useful things to blog about ;)