title: Application Initialization with IIS 10
body: <p>I'm trying to configure application initialization (see <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-8/iis-80-application-initialization" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Application Initialization in IIS 8.0</a>) for my ASP.NET MVC site, but I can find no mention of this feature for IIS 10. </p>
  
  <p>I tried following the steps in the linked guide, but they had no effect.</p>
  
  <p>I'm just trying to add a splash page while the initial <code>Application_Start</code> is run. I could configure the site to stay online indefinitely (currently using IIS's default functionality to suspend(?) after 20 minutes of inactivity), but this is not the desired behavior.</p>
  
  <p>Excerpt from linked MS Docs page describing the behavior I'm looking for:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>While an application is being initialized, IIS 8.0 can also be configured to return static content as a placeholder or "splash page" until an application has completed its initialization tasks.</p>
  </blockquote>