Question

I am routing all request myself, which get me into the problem of WebResource.axd requests, the solution I thought of is to modify the dot net framework code of AssemblyResourceLoader class, as CustomAssemblyResourceLoader, and set it to handle WebResource.axd requests. I am using Lutz Roeders Dot Net reflector to access the framework code.

The first step is to compile the code, I am implementing CustomAssemblyResourceLoader as follows (please note that whole AssemblyResourceLoader is copy-paste in CustomAssemblyResourceLoader just for now):

namespace System.Web.Handlers
{
    public sealed class CustomAssemblyResourceLoader : IHttpHandler
    {
        ...
        private static VirtualPath _smartNavPageLocation;
        ...

I have added all the required references and namespaces, but I am still getting compilation error:

‘System.Web.VirtualPath’ is
inaccessible due to its protection
level

If VirtualPath is inaccessible to CustomAssemblyResourceLoader, then how is it accessible to AssemblyResourceLoader. What would be solution to this problem?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Because VirtualPath is marked internal. Only code inside System.Web.dll can use it. That has to be bad news, there’s no decent workaround for this.