global-asax

I am wondering under what circumstances I should be putting application initialisation code in Application_Start() vs Init() in my Global.asax file? The distinction between the two doesn't seem very obvious to me, other than Application_start gets called first, then Init() . Why would I use one over the other? Does it really make a difference? What changes in the application state between the two events? So far the only real pointer I can find is that IHttpModule only has an Init() method, so if what I'm doing may at some point be better suited to implement IHttpModule I should use the Init()

I'm trying to get a reference to the user object in my Global.asax file's Application_BeginRequest . I'm using the property Context.User but I get a NullReferenceException . Is it possible to get a user object reference in Application_BeginRequest? Jim Schubert You don't have access to the User object because the request hasn't yet been authenticated. Try using Application_AuthenticateRequest instead. Here is an explanation of all Global.asax events: https://web.archive.org/web/1/http://articles.techrepublic%2ecom%2ecom/5100-10878_11-5771721.html And the MSDN walkthrough of the application

One of our applications has a mechanism for emailing our Helpdesk automatically should it encounter a certain level of exception. One particular exception, a NullReferenceException, is causing a few problem and I believe it is caused by IIS recycling and losing the session. To prove this I want to log when the application is started/stoped/recycled and have added some code to the global.asax file to do this. Running on Debug mode the log messages are written out and all seems well. The problem comes when I switch to Release build, which triggers a Web Deployment Project to build to a folder

I'd like to use the netTcpBinding for my WCF application which is currently hosted in IIS7, which means configuring it to use WAS instead. This is fairly straight forward however, my application previously made use of the Application_Start event in the global.asax file. I do not require access to the httpContext(which I understand access has been removed in IIS7), however I would still like to hook into the start or init methods? Does an equivalent exist when hosting an application in WAS as apposed to IIS7? Using classic mode is not an option(again I'm not interested in the httpcontext and

I'm having an issue with custom errors on an ASP.NET MVC app I've deployed on my shared host. I've created an ErrorController and added the following code to Global.asax to catch unhandled exceptions, log them, and then transfer control to the ErrorController to display custom errors. This code is taken from here : protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e) { Exception ex = Server.GetLastError(); Response.Clear(); HttpException httpEx = ex as HttpException; RouteData routeData = new RouteData(); routeData.Values.Add("controller", "Error"); if (httpEx == null) { routeData

Can anybody tell me when Application_End is triggered in a lifecycle of an application? When all sessions are ended, will Application_End be triggered automatically? + Are there any other reasons why Application_End could be triggered? The application_end event primarily fires when the IIS pool is recycled or the application itself is unloaded. One other thing to note, that a change to a dependent file (say web.config) will cause the application to reload itself, which will in cause the application_end event to fire while it is closing itself off. To note, the only instance I found of the