Question

I’ve got a piece of code that I want to run one time when my website is first loaded.
It is basically a static initialization of another module.

Is there some event I can hook into that runs when the site is first served to a client?
It doesn’t even need to be per session, just on first load to any client.

I’m using vs2010, .net 4.0, asp.net 4.0

Answer 1

You can use the Application_Start event.

See MSDN ASP.NET Application Life Cycle Overview

Application_Start is Called when the first resource (such as a page) in an ASP.NET
application is requested. The
Application_Start method is called
only one time during the life cycle of
an application. You can use this
method to perform startup tasks such
as loading data into the cache and
initializing static values.