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Disclaimer

This is a project I did some years back but never took much care maintaining or writing proper automated tests.
Although this has been used in multiple production applications, I suggest to take your time to understand it properly.

On CodeProject there’s also a nice discusison about this approach over WebAPI.

Description

In ASP.NET, we have something that is usually overlooked that is called Generic Handlers.

This is an completely worked out Generic Handler that truly knows how to handle your http (AJAX and not) requests.

For now, for a detailed explanation, please look at the original CodeProject article

Why not WebAPI or MVC?

When I wrote this, WebAPI was not available yet.

Although Generic Handlers still have their meaning, probably you’ll find WebAPI a good match for most of your needs.

ASP.net MVC Controllers can also be used, specially if you’re already using it in your application.