15.4. Summary

This chapter contained special techniques to address specific scenarios. Remember that ASP.NET is built for flexibility; this characteristic reflects how many incredible things you can do by using extreme techniques.

HttpRuntime offers the right entry points to add your own custom mechanisms to implement simple things like intercepting (and logging) exceptions and more complex things like modifying page behavior using an HttpModule, or implementing a Virtual-PathProvider to load code from a database. ASP.NET is so powerful that you can literally do anything you need to: you just have to write code and express your imagination!