Creating a System.Web.UI.Page programatically in IHTTPHandler
- by ObiWanKenobi
I am trying to use the ASP.NET (3.5) "Routing Module" functionality to create custom pages based on the contents of the URL.
Various articles, such as this one: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx explain how to use ASP.NET Routing to branch to existing pages on the web server.
What I would like to do is create the page on-the-fly using code.
My first attempt looks like this:
public class SimpleRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
string pageName = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("PageName");
Page myPage = new Page();
myPage.Response.Write("hello " + pageName);
return myPage;
}
}
But this throws an HTTPException saying "Response is not available in this context." at the Response.Write statement.
Any ideas on how to proceed?
UPDATE: In the end, I went with an approach based on IHttpModule, which turned out to be rather easy.
