Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference

In this chapter, we covered some basic objects that are the foundation of ASP.NET programming Server, Response, Request, and others. An ASP.NET application is represented by an instance of the HttpApplication class properly configured by the contents of the global.asax file. And both the HttpApplication class and the global.asax file found their space in this chapter, too.

While discussing the interface of the objects that generate the context of an HTTP request, we reviewed in detail some specific programming issues such as the instantiation of late-bound COM objects, server-side page redirection, and the setup of response filters. In the next chapter, we'll discuss an important topic related to Web applications and ASP.NET state management. Fundamentally, Web applications are stateless, but ASP.NET provides various mechanisms for maintaining application state and caching pages.