I would like to display a splash startup page when my MVC app is loading. While this was answered in Displaying a stub page while ASP.NET app starts I can't figure out how to make this work for MVC.
The basics for a regular webforms app is adding something like the following to web.config
<applicationInitialization
remapManagedRequestsTo="Startup.htm"
skipManagedModules="true" >
<add initializationPage="/default.aspx" />
</applicationInitialization>
The problem I can't figure out is how to set the initializationPage for the home controller. I'm using IIS8.