The Microsoft tutorial Walkthrough: Creating an Asynchronous HTTP Handler did not describe how to use IHttpAsyncHandler from F#.
It was also a bit complicated, because it did not show how to do it from Visual Studio.
Here is the Visual Studio F# version.
1. Create empty ASP.NET Web Application. Call it FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.
2. Add a F# library project to the solution. Call it FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib.
3. Add the following code to Library1.fs in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib
4. Add a reference to System.Web in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib
5. Add a reference to FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.
6. Add the following to Web.config in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.
7. In the Web tab of the project properties of FSharpHttpAsyncHandler, set Start url to http://localhost:
Posted: 7 years ago by Erling Hellenäs