Question

I’m trying to implement AcquireRequestState event in my application’s Global.asax, but when i add the following code Visual Studio 2010 warns me with the message

‘TestMe.Global.AcquireRequestState(object, System.EventArgs)’ hides
inherited member ‘System.Web.HttpApplication.AcquireRequestState’. Use
the new keyword if hiding was intended.

 protected void AcquireRequestState(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
    //Some code here
 }

My question is why is this hiding the base class implementation when the remaining methods of the Application class like Application_Start, Session_Start are fine ?

Is AcquireRequestState declared in the base class, while the remaining methods are just event handlers that are only declared in the Global.asax class

Answer 1

I believe that the autowired event name should be Application_AcquireRequestState:

protected void Application_AcquireRequestState(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  //Some code here
}