ASP.Net Session_Start event not firing

asp.net iis session global-asax
Jazza picture Jazza · Sep 16, 2008 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I have an ASP.Net 2.0 application in which the Session_Start event is not firing in my Global.asax file. Can anyone tell why this is happening and how I can get it working?

The application worked fine on my Windows XP development machine, but stopped working when deployed to the server (Win Server 2003/IIS 6/ASP.Net 2.0).

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the server also hosts a SharePoint installation (WSS 3.0) which I know does change some settings at the default web site level.

Answer

Gulzar Nazim picture Gulzar Nazim · Sep 16, 2008

Is the site precompiled before adding global.asax? Try compiling it again.

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