Something faster than HttpHandlers?

Question

What is the fastest way to execute a method on an ASP.NET website?

The scenario is pretty simple: I have a method which should be executed when a web page is hit. No

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your exact scenario is, but if all your page is doing is processing some data, you don't really need an aspx page or an http handler at all. You could write an ASMX web service or WCF service to do what you need and this would most likely be less overhead. The WCF service doesn't even have to be hosted in ASP.NET. You can host it from a Windows service or console app, and call it in-proc using named pipes. This would probably reduce the overhead for calling the data processing code significantly.