ASP.NET Resources

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Web Resources rely on a special handler that is named WebResource.axd, which is designed to retrieve assembly resources and serve them to the Web browser. The handler type for WebResource.axd is AssemblyResourceLoader.

When a request comes in from the client for WebResource.axd, the handler looks for the Web Resource identifier in the QueryString method of the Request object. Based on the value of the Web Resource identifier, the handler then tries to load the assembly that contains this resource. If this operation is successful, the handler will then look for the assembly attribute and load the resource stream from the assembly. Finally, the handler will grab the data from the resource stream and send it to the client together with the content type that you specify in the assembly attribute.