Owin Startup Class won't Start on IIS - iis

[assembly: OwinStartup(typeof(Test.TestStartup))]
namespace Test
{
public class TestStartup
{
public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
{
File.AppendAllText("c:/Test/owin.txt", "started");
// do stuff
}
}
}
I have a very simple OWIN startup class. When I run this on my local, it executes just fine.
When I try to publish this app to an IIS server, I can't get it to start.
The app pool is in Integrated mode and using 4.0.
I have tried including owin:AutomaticAppStartup = "true" in my web.config.
The Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb dll is present in the bin directory of my deployed app.
Everyone has full control on the 'Test' directory.
Any ideas? I am completely stuck.

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Here is the code to call the hangfire launch:
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using Hangfire.Dashboard;
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Could not load file or assembly 'netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
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I have a web role on azure and I would like to force a Application_Start without waiting for the first request.
I managed to set the "Start Automatically" property to true on my site
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SOLUTION
I put the solution code here. I hope will help someone. I just added a WebRole.cs and just put that code to perform a ping every 30 seconds. Please netice I'm browsing Service.svc because this is my endpoint, your endpoint could be another one. Notice I'm asking for "Endpoint1". If you have more than one endpoints, you should review that line.
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public override void Run()
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request.Method = "GET";
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Jordi, I've recently experienced the same issue.
Based on my test Application_Start() is called ONLY when the 1st request ISS for the WebApp. (if you try to start VS in Debug without it open any page (see options in proj/debug), you will see that Application_Start() won't be called also if you don't run the WebApp in Azure)
I suppose that you need doing somethings when the WebRole start, well put your code in the WebRole.cs ;)
Here you can override OnStart() and OnStop() and put your code that wiil be execuded when the WebRole will start.
I've used this way to run a BakgroundWorker that do some scheduled tasks, independently from IIS.
I hope this help.
Davide.
Note:
1 - if you dont'have a WebRole.cs create it in the root of project and write inside:
public class WebRole : RoleEntryPoint
{
public override bool OnStart()
{
...your code...
return base.OnStart();
}
}
2 - If you need to debug the code mind that you need to run VS in debug with the Azure project that refer to WebApp as a "Run Project", otherwise the WebRole will not be called
You could try putting some code in your WebRole.cs to request some URLs from your website. I've tried that, and it seems to work somewhat. But it's a pain to debug, so I never got it really nailed down.
Another option would be to use IIS Application Initialization. You can't use it on IIS 7.5, but you can get IIS 8 if you upgrade your roles to Windows 2012 (set osFamily="3" in your .cscfg).

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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/12/02/new-full-iis-capabilities-differences-from-hosted-web-core.aspx
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