serviceAutoStartProviders Element for system.applicationHost [IIS Settings Schema]

Note

For more information about the serviceAutoStartProviders element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Service Autostart Providers <serviceAutoStartProviders>.

Specifies a collection of managed assemblies that Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) will load automatically when the startMode attribute of an application pool is set to AlwaysRunning. This collection allows developers to specify assemblies that perform initialization tasks before any HTTP requests are serviced.

Syntax

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

Element	Description
add	Optional element. Adds a provider to the collection of autostart providers.
clear	Optional element. Clears the collection of autostart providers.
remove	Optional element. Removes a provider from the collection of autostart providers.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
configuration	Specifies the root element in every configuration file that is used by IIS 7.
system.applicationHost	Specifies the root element for configuring Web process settings.

Remarks

For more information about the serviceAutoStartProviders element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Service Autostart Providers <serviceAutoStartProviders>.

Element Information

Namespace	ApplicationHost.config
Schema Name	IIS 7

See Also

Reference

add Element for serviceAutoStartProviders for system.applicationHost [IIS Settings Schema]