Does Windows Azure support the Application Warm-Up module or something similar?

Question

We have a Web Role that we are hosting in Windows Azure that uses an old ASMX based Web Reference to contact an external system. The Web Reference proxy code is big enough

Answer 1

I like the solution from Steve Marx.

Add this lines to ServiceDefinition.csdef:

And add disableTimeout.cmd in a folder called startup, with the following line of code:

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:applicationPools -applicationPoolDefaults.processModel.idleTimeout:00:00:00

Original solution from here: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/controlling-application-pool-idle-timeouts-in-windows-azure

When running in the emulator please read this: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/skipping-windows-azure-startup-tasks-when-running-in-the-emulator