I have searched the web for over one day but I did not find anything I need.
I am developing an IIS web application with HttpHandlers and HttpModules. I need to initialize the application on first run (applying configuration). But I do not want to use global.asax.cs because I do not want implementations having a global.asax file in their folder (a web.config at most).
How do I run some code when the application pool is being initialized?
You could use the assembly level attribute PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute to have your startup code run early in the ASP.NET pipeline.
namespace MyWebService
{
public class MyHttpHandler: IHttpHandler, IDisposable
{
public static void StartUp()
{
//Application Startup Code;
}
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
//Do Something
}
public bool IsReusable { get; private set; }
public void Dispose(){};
}
}
}
}
And add the attribute to your AssemblyInfo.cs
[assembly: PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(MyWebService.MyHttpHandler), "StartUp")]
For more info on PreApplicationStartMethod : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.preapplicationstartmethodattribute
