Synclock in Begin request must be bad right?

[Rory Becker]

I have had code in my Application_Start which is intended to run once at
the start of my application's life.

It loads connection information and similar from a known location.

However I recently migrated my app using
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%systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD.EXE migrate config "Default Web Site/YourApp"
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At which point my app's startup code was denied access to the request object.

I found a workaround which was to place the following code in the beginrequest

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Private Shared InitializeLock As New Object
Private Shared InitializedAlready As Boolean
Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
' Fires at the beginning of each request
SyncLock InitializeLock
If Not InitializedAlready Then

' My Initialise code goes here.

InitializedAlready = True
End If
End SyncLock
End Sub

 

[Rory Becker]

Damn "Send" hotkeys. Sorry about that. I sent the previous message before
I was done writing it.

This does work but I'm worried about performance

Specifically it occurs to be that I now have a bottleneck in my application
which only one request can pass through at any one time.

This does not seem good for a web site.

Please tell me there is a better way.


Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Rory Becker]

Ok move on nothing to see here.

Just some shmuck accessing...

 

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi Rory,

From your previous messages, you currently encounter the following two
problems, correct?

1.the code in your ASP.NET's Application_Start event which access a
certain object fails(with Access denied) after you switch to a new IIS
directory.

2. You can not get "HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath" property
work in Application_Start event

As for the 1st problem, I wonder what is the exact object you're trying to
access, is it an COM object or something else, would you provide some code
snippet or further description? Such "Access denied" error is commonly
caused by security permission issues, therefore, is that certain object
access permission sensitive? If so, have you used "impersonate" in your
ASP.NET web application. If you have used impersonate, the security account
under which the ASP.NET code executes are different between
Application_Start and the "Begin_Request"(or any other page level event).
This is because Application_Start executes at application level(there may
not exists any request context), it runs under ASP.NET worker process
account. Why "Begin_Request" is under the certain ASP.NET client request's
context, if you have used imperonate, it is running under the impersonate
account.


for the 2nd problem, it is actuall the same with the 1st one,
"HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath" this is a property coupled
with the current request's "HttpContext". For each client request to
ASP.NET application, the runtime will attach an HttpContext object with the
request(during the server-side processing lifecycle). However,
Applicaiton_start event is not a Request based event, it is just a global
application level event, there is no HttpContext associated with it,
therefore, if you try accessing any Httpcontext coupled property in it,
that will not be available.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:57 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Rory Becker <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Synclock in Begin request must be bad right?

 

[Rory Becker]

Hello Steven Cheng [MSFT],

Hi Rory,

From your previous messages, you currently encounter the following two
problems, correct?

1.the code in your ASP.NET's Application_Start event which access a
certain object fails(with Access denied) after you switch to a new IIS
directory.

My appologies if I gave the wrong impression here I am in fact able to access
the file in question, however I was having difficulty locating it as I needed
to locate the applications root directory and base it's location on that.
given that problem 2 is now solved, problem 1 ceases to exist.

2. You can not get "HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath"
property work in Application_Start event

This was indeed the case.

for the 2nd problem, it is actuall the same with the 1st one,
"HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath" this is a property
coupled with the current request's "HttpContext". For each client
request to ASP.NET application, the runtime will attach an HttpContext
object with the request(during the server-side processing lifecycle).
However, Applicaiton_start event is not a Request based event, it is
just a global application level event, there is no HttpContext
associated with it, therefore, if you try accessing any Httpcontext
coupled property in it, that will not be available.

However it did used to fire at a point in time when there was an httprequest
available. It is only since the migration that this event has shifted.

This however has led to my discovery of 'HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppVirtualPath'
which needs no such request to determine the information needed.


Thanks for your help anyway though

 

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Thanks for your quick reply Rory,

I'm glad that you've found the solution. Yes, For ASP.NET web application,
in Application level event, it is better to avoid using those object which
is specific to HttpContext/Request. And the AppDomain properties you found
is not specific to any request context, but keep available based on the
given ASP.NET application(a certain .net AppDomain).

If you have any further questions, also welcome to post here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:23:52 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Rory Becker <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Synclock in Begin request must be bad right?

Hello Steven Cheng [MSFT],

Hi Rory,

From your previous messages, you currently encounter the following two
problems, correct?

1.the code in your ASP.NET's Application_Start event which access a
certain object fails(with Access denied) after you switch to a new IIS
directory.

My appologies if I gave the wrong impression here I am in fact able to access
the file in question, however I was having difficulty locating it as I needed
to locate the applications root directory and base it's location on that.
given that problem 2 is now solved, problem 1 ceases to exist.

2. You can not get "HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath"
property work in Application_Start event

This was indeed the case.

for the 2nd problem, it is actuall the same with the 1st one,
"HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath" this is a property
coupled with the current request's "HttpContext". For each client
request to ASP.NET application, the runtime will attach an HttpContext
object with the request(during the server-side processing lifecycle).
However, Applicaiton_start event is not a Request based event, it is
just a global application level event, there is no HttpContext
associated with it, therefore, if you try accessing any Httpcontext
coupled property in it, that will not be available.

However it did used to fire at a point in time when there was an httprequest
available. It is only since the migration that this event has shifted.

This however has led to my discovery of

'HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppVirtualPath'