title: can I use serviceAutoStartProviders for azure web app?
body: <p>My site's first query is quite slow (as I am using code first and by design the first query will be much more than just query the database).</p>
  
  <p>I read that I can create a prewarmer and config applicationHost.config like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>in &lt;application&gt; tag: 
  set serviceAutoStartEnabled="true" serviceAutoStartProvider="PrewarmMyApp"
  Add the following XML after &lt;/site&gt;:
  
  &lt;serviceAutoStartProviders&gt;
      &lt;add 
          name="PrewarmMyApp" 
          type="MyWebApp.PreWarmUp, MyWebApp" /&gt;
  &lt;/serviceAutoStartProviders&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But in azure, can I modify applicationHost.config to insert these? If not, is there anything else I can do?</p>
  
  <p>Many Thanks</p>