Comments on: Customizing application.master Without Breaking Things

By: Steve Graegert

Steve Graegert — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:30:25 +0000

Navaneeth – A HttpHandler is an extension-based pre-processor that is suitable to intercept request for a particular resource, i.e. HTML or GIF files. A HttpModule is an event-based preprocessor that allows to intercept events that occur in the pipeline and to inject custom logic. Since we want to to hook up with the page’s PreInit event we need to use an HttpHandler.

Essentially, handlers and modules can be combined so that modules are called before and after a handler executes. You may find the article KB307985 in Microsofts knowledge base interesting.

Hope that was helpful.

By: Navaneeth

Navaneeth — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:49:03 +0000

hi Steve

i have one doubt. why you are using IHttpModule instead of httphandler?

By: Ivan Versluis

Ivan Versluis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:36:57 +0000

Hey Steve,

Thanks for posting this here. This post and code worked and helped me implement and complete the Sharepoint 2007 project I am doing now.

I’ve got the basics now and I will complete the configuration later on when moving to production server. I am using different folder for the custom application master. I prefer to use the “Styles” with the web application as than I can move the config easily without touching the file system.

I had issues with “copy it into the GAC” but I figured it out how to get through this issue. Non programmers like me are struggling with this and there is not easy information on google. I will blog my steps on for others.

By: ramesh

ramesh — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:10:34 +0000

Hi Steve Graegert,
Excellent posting..
It’s really made my day..
Thanks a lot