Question

IN my asp.net MVC4 project I have few .cs files under the app_start folder that needs to be initialized or perform per-authorization tasks etc. When you access the website they take quite a lot of time to perform all these tasks on application start for first time. Is it possible to run all files under app_start folder automatically while deployment. So that when someone access the website for the first time it wont take that much time.

Answer 1

Take a look at auto-starting your application

Add this to your applicationHost.config

<sites>    
     <site name="MySite" id="1">    
          <application path="/" 
                       serviceAutoStartEnabled="true" 
                       serviceAutoStartProvider="PreWarmMyCache" />    
     </site>    
</sites>
<serviceAutoStartProviders>
     <add name="PreWarmMyCache" type="PreWarmCache, MyAssembly" />
</serviceAutoStartProviders>

and the following to preload your work

public class PreWarmCache : System.Web.Hosting.IProcessHostPreloadClient {

    public void Preload(string[] parameters) {

        // Perform initialization and cache loading logic here...

    }

}