"Steve Ricketts" <Velocedge@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OYPOUP$tHHA.1052@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I have a web service written in VB 2003 .Net that I've put on a number of
>different servers an OS's, 2003 and 2000. Application_Start sets up a
>number of variables used by the various functions in the application.
>
> I just put the application on a 2000 server and found that it's not firing
> the Application_Start event. I thought it might be something in the
> procedure itself so I set a global variable to true on the first line of
> Application_Start. When I check the variable its still false.
>
> Everything appears to be fine. You can enter
> http://host/net/service1.asmx and the service page appears normal. You
> can even enter values in the service page and it tries to run them
> (doesn't work of course because the necessary variables haven't been set).
>
> I've given write access at the file level as well as in Internet Services
> Manager. I've created an application at the root, and at the
> application's root. Like I say, I've done this a number of times without
> problem and can't figure out what the difference is here.
>
> Can anyone give me an idea of what kinds of things would cause the
> Application_Start event not to fire?
>
> Thanks for any direction you can provide... I'll try anything at this
> point.
>
> Steve
>