ASP+ Application Framework

As a by-product of the modularization of ASP+, developers can also access the underlying runtime framework if they need to work at a lower level than the ASP+ page itself. As well as the information made available through the traditional ASP objects such as Form, QueryString, Cookies and ServerVariables, developers can also access the underlying objects that perform the runtime processing.

These objects include the entire page context, the HTTP Modules that process the requests, and the Request HTTP Handler objects. It is also possible to access the raw data streams, which are useful for managing file uploads and other similar specific tasks. We look at this whole topic in detail in Chapter 6.