This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I?m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. I?m going to switch from discussing new VS 2010 tooling features and instead do a few posts covering a few new runtime features (don?t worry ? I?ll come back to a lot more VS features, I?m just trying to mix things up a bit). Today?s post covers a small, but nice, new feature that you can now optionally take advantage of with ASP.NET 4 - the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without having to wait for an external client to hit the web server. This can help you provide a faster response experience for the first user who hits the server, and avoids you having to write custom scripts to ?warm up?...(read more) ...
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