c# ping a website? (keep-alive service)

Question

is there a way in c# to be able to ping a url every 15 minutes and get a response back from the server?

i want to try to see if .net can be used to build a simple to

Answer 1

You might not need to write your own:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/688/using-the-iis-application-warm-up-module/