I was almost going crazy before I found out that when you use a PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute for bootstrapping your hosting environment you must point to a type that resides in the same assembly that is being decorated!
Pointing to types in a different assembly will just blow up with a YSOD saying ‘The method specified by the PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute on assembly ‘assembly name’ cannot be resolved. Type: ‘type name’, MethodName: ‘Initialize’. Verify that the type is public and the method is public and static (Shared in Visual Basic).’.
Just though I’d mention it here, there’s not to much info on this…
