How to: Avoiding Cold-Start issues with IIS hosted WCF applications?

Question

We have a system where we host a couple of WCF applications in IIS. Some of these applications have a bit of an extended start-up time taking a couple of seconds (more than

Answer 1

Excellent. Thanks Dercsár.

After a quick Google, I found the following arcticle on the subject: Using the IIS Application Warm-Up Module

The limitations here are that this is only available on Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. Although our client is in the process of upgrading to Win 2K8R2, this may still be some time off.

Does anyone know of a solution that would work for Windows 2003 with IIS 6 or will we have to write something do make this work?

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