You need something to trigger it off. with a global.asax file, this is
triggered when the application starts (ie first hit)

If you want to do something independently you will probably need to create a
service or a windows app on the server?

Jody

"ChristianCigler" <mailinglists@xcits.com> wrote in message
news:060901c354fc$146dd560$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi Space!
>
> I'm looking for a solution to start a thread of my
> ASP.NET application when IIS (re-)starts.
> My problem is, that global.asax starts working only after
> the first request to my application is done. But I need
> to make some backgroundcalculations which need to start
> as soon as the server (IIS) starts independently of the
> first request to my application.
>
> Is there any way to solve this with asp.net directly? (I
> don't want to write a windows service.)
>
> Thanks for any hint
>
> Chris