Why does not the Application_Start() event fire when I debug my ASP.NET MVC app?

Question

I currently have the following routines in my Global.asax.cs file:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRout         


        

Answer 1

Add a System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break(); to Application_Start().
This will force a breakpoint.

This line should be commented out to avoid the breakpoint to happern and #ifdef debug to get sure never gets to production.