Hi all,

I have an umbraco 7.4.3 project in visual studio that inherits the applicationEventHandler class and runs some start up code (registering a custom route).

namespace MyPlugin

public class MyPopStartUpHandler : ApplicationEventHandler
{
    protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    {
        *****my custom*****
        base.ApplicationStarting(umbracoApplication, applicationContext);
    }

This code is in a dll project that is a dependency of the main Umbraco project. compiling this main umbraco project outputs 2 files into the bin directory. one is the main umbraco project dll that is essentially empty (since my start up application code is in the dll myplugin) and the other is the myplugin dll that actually houses my code.

It works when I execute or debug the main umbraco project from visual studio, but when I try to copy over these 2 dlls into my webmatrix bin directory and try to run the webmatrix web site, the start up application never gets called.

any ideas why?