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Startin Owin manually

For some reason I don't want to scan assemblies on startup (namely, I'm getting an InvalidProgramException because of an issue with the DotfuscatorAttribute). What I need is disable automatic app startup (I already know how to do it) and then call the startup method manually.

My question is, after I disable automatic startup via the config setting, how do I manually start it? I need it to get SignalR working.

Solution

  • There are 2 steps in general when a Startup.Configuration() is invoked.

    1. Scanning of assemblies with the OwinStartup attribute
    2. Instantiation of startup object and invoking the Configuration method over it.

    If you would like to avoid step 1 then you can specify the fully qualified startup class name in the appSetting "owin:AppStartup" with something like "MyApplication.Startup, MyApplication". For more information you can refer to this article.