How to use custom HttpHandler with asp.net mvc in iis 7 and visual studio?

I have created a HttpHandler that I would like to use with my asp.net mvc application (the version of mvc is not relevant). How do I make my HttpHandler to handle request to a certain directory? The actual file in the directory doesn't exist, but that is fine since I want to create the response. I want it to work in IIS 7 of course, but also in Visual studio for debugging purpose. When searching the internet for it I found that you register handlers in web.config under the system.webServer node like:

<system.webServer>
  <handlers>
    <add name="MyHandler" path="/MyPath/*" verb="*" 开发者_C百科type="Namespace.To.MyHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" preCondition="integratedMode" />
  </handlers>
</system.webServer>

But my handler doesn't get fired.

Ok, so it turned out that this is not what I want to do at all. What I ended up doing was creating my custom IRouteHandler and mapped a route to the folder I wanted my handler to use. My custom IRouteHandler only created a new instance of my already existing IHttpHandler, since I could use the same one. I will provide more info here later on.