IIS - Application warmup

How to warm up IIS application especially when using Entity framework

Follow below steps to enable your website always respond quickly,

- Check "Application Initialization" feature enabled in windows features turn or off

- Start Mode of Application pool set as "Always Running" in AppPool Advanced Settings
- Preload of Website should be set as "true" in Website advanced settings

- Add Application Initialization script in web.config of your application as below, You can specify valid URL which can initialize all items such as SQL DB, EF etc.,

<system.webServer>

  <applicationInitialization doAppInitAfterRestart="true" skipManagedModules="false">

      <add initializationPage="/YourUrl/YourMethodAnything" />

    </applicationInitialization>

</system.webServer>

Following these steps will solve your idle timeout application responding slow issue.