title: MVC 5 Application_Start Not Running
body: <p>I have an old MVC application that was built using Visual Studio 2010. I then upgraded to MVC 5 using Visual Studio 2013 and upgraded the NuGet packages. It builds, but when I run the application through Visual Studio it cannot find the home view. I traced it back to the the Global.asax and found out the Application_Start is never called and routes are never set then.</p>
  
  <p>I have found a few questions asked here about this problem, but none of the solutions have worked for me.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25973106/application-start-not-working">Application_start not working</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/641148/application-start-not-firing">Application_Start not firing?</a></p>
  
  <p>This seems so simple, but I can't find a solution to this. Any ideas?</p>