I have some method that is invoked on Application_Start. And it starts on first page request by any user.
But i have another application, dependent on that task that fires during Application_Start.
So that if IIS/website is restarted- another application cant get some data from website, until someone requests page on the running website.
Is there a way to run some task on website start; without any interaction from user side, just to start website in IIS and do the job i want?
PS more details on implementation architecture:
Website starts an instance of messaging service and starts sending messages through that service(that is located on another server). I know that it would have been better to create wcf or windows service for this kind of things, but someone wrote this website before i was included in this project. So clients(that receive messages from messaging server) do not know anything about website. Here website is just administrative panel to turn on/off some messaging features.
My Solution
Created windows service for my task. Works well, under local system account has no problems with writing to windows event logs.
Check out this “The Dangers of Implementing Recurring Background Tasks In ASP.NET“
Also you should consider installing Quartz.NET as a service, so that you can setup scheduled tasks remotely.