Mark,

>If I do this with the second Application, it is as if this code isn't executed at all. Where can I ,earlier in the process, detect if this code is executed so I can find out why it isn't?

This *is* the starting point. When your Web application first starts up, the Application_Start event is raised. I haven't seen this before so I suspect it has to do with the unconventional way you created the second application.

Regards,