How do I get a .Net Core website hosted in IIS to start immediately?

Question

This blog post explains how when a .Net Core website is hosted in IIS, the website code does not actually get run until the first request comes in to IIS:

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Answer 1

I tried the solution above by @eric, and it didn't work by itself. Adding this to my .CSPROJ file (in addition to his suggestions) finally did the trick:

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    false