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A couple of questions regarding the role of global.asax:
Why is it not included in the Website Project in Visual Studio? Are there other ways of achieving the same functionality without this file?
If I would create a Web Application project, as far as I remember, a global.asax file would be created. If I were to delete it, would the project run?
I tried to look for some explanation regarding the global.asax compilation but didn't find any info about this.. would appreciate help/links. :)
Thanks!
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The Global. asax, also known as the ASP.NET application file, is located in the root directory of an ASP.NET application. This file contains code that is executed in response to application-level and session-level events raised by ASP.NET or by HTTP modules.
How to add global. asax file: Select Website >>Add New Item (or Project >> Add New Item if you're using the Visual Studio web project model) and choose the Global Application Class template. After you have added the global.
Global. asax is an optional file which is used to handling higher level application events such as Application_Start, Application_End, Session_Start, Session_End etc.
An ASP.NET site can run without the global.asax file. Here is a question which talks about alternatives of global.asax file.
Even if you delete a global.asax file your site will work.
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Globax.asax is not required by ASP.NET for a website to run. It is, however, very useful for application-level functionality (like unhandled exception logging).
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