How does the IIS 7 / ASP.Net pipeline work?

Question

From an HTTP request all the way to my files (like .asmx)... what are modules, handlers, app pools... etc... I don't want to ready a chapter about it. Just a summary paragraph.

Answer 1

Here's an image describing the IIS 6 & ASP.NET pipeline from Learn IIS.NET:

Here's an image describing the IIS 7 & ASP.NET pipeline from Learn IIS.NET:

And finally here's an image for the MVC pipeline that Red-Gate put together:

The pdf can be downloaded from RedGate