IIS 7.5 Application Initialization for ASP.NET web service (warmup) without remapping requests

Question

I\'m trying to use the IIS 7.5 Application Initialization extension to configure a warmup process for my web application. This is an approach I am taking to minimize slow do

Answer 1

I think I answered my own question. I removed the skipManagedModules attribute and it worked. This code accomplishes application initialization, and during warmup, requests seem to wait for it to complete before being processed:

I couldn't find any documentation for why it behaves this way and don't really understand what skipManagedModules means. If anyone can further explain this, I can mark the explanation as an answer. Thanks!