Why can't my host (softsyshosting.com) support BeginRequest and EndRequest event handlers?

Question

I heard good things about Softsys Hosting and so I decided to move my ASP.NET MVC solution over to them. But it would not run on them. I was able to pinpoint the problem t

Answer 1

Looks to me like you went from IIS 6 or IIS 7 Classic mode to IIS 7 Integrated mode. In IIS 7 integrated mode, the Request processing was decoupled from application start. This article explains the why's and wherefores.

To fix it, you'll need to move your code to Application_BeginRequest instead.