Overview
Chapter 28 and Chapter 30 introduced Microsoft Windows as a viable Internet server platform using the sockets API and the WinInet API and using ATL Server to write ISAPI DLLs. ASP.NET represents another way to intercept and process HTTP requests. In this chapter, we'll look at the ASP.NET architecture. The ASP.NET features we'll look at include the path a request takes from the time Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) passes it to ASP.NET to the time the ASP.NET application renders its content. You'll also see examples of writing ASP.NET Web sites using managed C++ components.