Tag Archives: ashx

The .ashx extension – Writing your own HttpHandler

Posted on February 13, 2009 by

Have you noticed how Sitecore serves images using an .ashx extension? A .ashx file is a HttpHandler. A HttpHandler is kind of a lightweight aspx page, as the HttpHandler only deals with the HttpContext - for example there is no page … Continue reading →

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Media Library file names. Tired of guids?

Posted on August 28, 2008 by

Have you noticed that when uploading files to the media library, sometimes the resulting file name is a guid? If I upload an image, say Brian.jpg, I need to write ~/media/9B62BB56FD6040FAA56C6DB1D8A0BDE6.ashx in order to acces it from the front end. And … Continue reading →

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Sitecore 5.3 and ImageURI

Posted on April 27, 2007 by

If you assign the path of a media item to a Image.ImageUrl in code behind it will not find the image unless you prefix the path with a /, see the example code below: If you do not make the … Continue reading →

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