Mike Volodarsky on web server infrastructure, IIS, ASP.NET, and other such animals
The “Request is not available in this context” exception is one of the more common errors you may receive on when moving ASP.NET applications to Integrated mode on IIS 7.0. This exception happens in your implementation of the Application_Start method in the global.asax file if you attempt to access the HttpContext of the request that started the application.
Learn more about why this happens and how to work around it to start enjoying the benefits of ASP.NET Integrated mode for your application: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/11/10/Integrated-mode-Request-is-not-available-in-this-context-in-Application_5F00_Start.aspx.
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About mvolo
I am a Program Manager on the IIS Application Server team. I've been working on Microsoft's web server platform for over 3 years, first as the ASP.NET core PM on ASP.NET 2.0 and now as the core server PM on the new IIS7 server. Some of my other projects include the AppCmd command line tool, and the FastCGI support. To read more about the news and technology from the core of the Microsoft's web platform, check out my blog at http://www.mvolo.com.
