How does the IIS 7 / ASP.Net pipeline work?

From an HTTP request all the way to my files (like .asmx)... what are modules, handlers, app pools... etc... I don't want to ready a chapte开发者_StackOverflowr about it. Just a summary paragraph.

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Here's an image describing the IIS 6 & ASP.NET pipeline from Learn IIS.NET:

IIS 6 pipeline http://i3.iis.net/media/7179635/aspnet-integration-with-iis-243-fig1.jpg?cdn_id=2013-10-22-001

Here's an image describing the IIS 7 & ASP.NET pipeline from Learn IIS.NET:

IIS 7 pipeline http://i1.iis.net/media/7179629/aspnet-integration-with-iis-243-fig2.jpg?cdn_id=2013-10-22-001

And finally here's an image for the MVC pipeline that Red-Gate put together:

The pdf can be downloaded from RedGate