Why are the Global.asax events not firing in my ASP .NET website?

Question

I\'ve been developing an ASP .NET 3.5 web application against Cassini, the built-in web development server, rather than against IIS.

In my Global.asax file, in the A

Answer 1

We tried a lot of things.

1. global.asax works on local computer but not after i publish to server
2. Global.asax is not publishing and event are not firing in Global.asax
3. Global.asax not firing for Release build
4. Mystery of Global.asax in ASP.NET MVC application

We also tried putting the below files in root and bin directories.

1. App_global.asax.dll and App_global.asax.compiled files
2. PrecompiledApp.config

None of it worked!

We had to put raw Global.asax instead of pre-compiled dll, in order to fire the global events, for our asp .net 2.0 website.

Hope this helps someone! Cheers! Happy coding! :D