.asax

Question

What is the use of .asax file? please give an example?

Amit Choudhary · Answer

The Global.asax file also known as the ASP.NET application file is an optional file that contains code for responding to application-level and session-level events raised by ASP.NET or by HTTP modules . The Global.asax file resides in the root directory of an ASP.NET application. At run time Global.asax is parsed and compiled into a dynamically generated .NET Framework class derived from the HttpApplication base class. ASP.NET is configured so that any direct URL request for the Global.asax file is automatically rejected