The global.asax File
The global.asax file is used by Web applications to handle some application-level events raised by the ASP.NET runtime or by registered HTTP modules. The global.asax file is optional. If it is missing, the ASP.NET runtime environment simply assumes you have no application or module event handlers defined. To be functional, the global.asax file must be located in the root directory of the application. Only one global.asax file per application is accepted. Any global.asax files placed in subdirectories are simply ignored. Note that Microsoft Visual Studio doesn't list global.asax in the items you can add to the project if there already is one.
Compiling global.asax
When the application is started, global.asax, if present, is parsed ...
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