Have you ever wondered about all the stages that an ASP.NET request goes through? Ever wonder why it is such a performance hit to have a wildcard mapping to map all extensions on your web server to ASP.NET? This information corresponds to IIS 5.0 and 6.0. For information on the life cycle in IIS 7.0, see ASP.NET Application Life Cycle Overview for IIS 7.0. You can also check out the ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Overview for information on what happens once a page is run.
User requests a resource A request comes into the web server and it will check to see what is mapped to handle the request. ASP.NET is an ISAPI extension under the web server.
ASP.NET receives the first request for an application ASP.NET will first create the ap ...
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