Yep, the application is like 20 aspx pages and they all work great with connections to Active Directory and SQL INSERTS, databinding etc., there's a lot going on that works fine. It's just that the code in global.asax doesn't execute. Super frustrating, and I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing.

If I put a bad line of code in global.asax it does error and show me the line that's erroring. So I have no idea.

Curious; if the Events are not firing, how is this line true:

If I put a bad line of code in global.asax it does error and show me the line that's erroring.

??

In any case, if the .asax file is in the Root of the web directory and the directory is setup as an application through IIS, I am not sure how to fix this. I did a quick search on Google and there were no serach results for problems with the Global.asax events not firing.

Imar or Peter may have a better solution but I do not.

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It is so odd. Yes global.asax can error, but other than that I can't make it affect anything. No actions in any of my global.asax Subs do anything. Helpless!

Imar or Peter?

Strange, I can find a ton of people on the Internet experiencing an issue with their global.asax code not working, but not one valid reply.

I should mention that this is not a compiled project (no code-behind pages), just aspx pages with inline code. No Visual Studio involved. Everything works great except for this global.asax issue, which is why I asked if there was something simple I needed to do to hook it up to the application. I don't think I'm missing anything, but nobody seems to know how to get my global.asax to affect anything.

Even if you are not using VS your app will be compiled by the runtime the first time your application is visted. (You will see the bin directory with a DLL in it that is your application)

Imar and Peter are 2 of the Forum Pros.

As I said, I am not sure. In my Session_OnStart event I wrote these lines of code:

Response.Write("<script language='javascript'>window.location.href='http://www.google.com';</scr" + "ipt>");
Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com");

both redirect to Google as expected. Very strange.

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Just figured it out.

In my global.asax script, all my subs were contained within the "Public Class Global". I didn't think of it earlier because it was created by Visual Studio initially.

I think the bonehead programmer who was here before my time set it up as a template so all new global.asax's have it that way. Anyway I took everything out of the Class and my code seems to work fine now. Your google redirect did not work before I did this, then then did work after.

WOOHOO

To anyone out there on the web wondering why your global.asax isn't firing, check if your SUBs are inside of "Public Class Global" and get them outta there!

Glad you got it working. A word of advice though, while you may not have particularly cared for the person who was in your position prior to you, you should refrain from "name calling". The reason for this is simple: you called him a bonehead, problem is, the Global.asax is setup like that for a reason in VS as it becomes part of the Application Namespace inside the DLL, this is how the app references the code.

Be humble. You will invariable come across programmers who posess skills far superior to your own and, on the flip side, programmers who possess skills that are inferior to your own. You can learn something from both of the aforementioned groups; even if its something trival you can learn SOMETHING for everyone but no one is going to want to help the guy that calls other programmers "boneheads".

Simply put, if you put 10 programmers in the same room and ask them to each write a program that does the same thing, you will get 10 completely different copies of source code; programmers think differently so, by and large, everything they do in their code they do it for a reason, that doesn't make them a bonehead! ;]

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