Extract text from ASHX files
To convert your ASHX file to another format, you need Visual Studio or other Web software.
To convert other file formats to the "ASP.NET Source Code" file type, you need software like Visual Studio or a similar tool.
A .ASHX file is technically an ASP.NET Web Handler file, used by servers running Microsoft IIS to generate dynamic content. Unlike standard pages (aspx), handlers process incoming requests without a visual interface, often generating data streams like JSON, images, or documents on the fly.
However, most users encounter .ASHX files by accident when downloading documents (like bank statements or invoices) or images. This happens when the web browser saves the server's processing filename instead of the intended content filename. In these cases, the file is not actually code - it is a disguised PDF, JPG, ZIP, or PNG file. Attempting to open it directly often results in an error or opens a code editor full of unreadable binary text.
For developers, .ASHX files contain C# code that needs to be edited in Visual Studio. For general users, the solution is to determine the true file type inside the .ASHX container. Converting the file allows you to recover the underlying PDF document for archiving, the JPG image for viewing, or the ZIP archive for extraction.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ASHX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PDF, ASH, JPG, ASPX, PNG, ZIP, AHX, HTML, VIR DOCUMENT, TXT, CRDOWNLOAD, WEBP and DOCX files.
If you want to convert ASHX file to PDF, JPG, PNG, MP4, HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX or JSP, you can use Visual Studio or similar software from the "Dynamic Content Handler" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to ASHX, try Visual Studio or another comparable tool in the "Dynamic Content Handler" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ASHX converter.