PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute: WebActivatorEx vs. System.Web

[cb55555]

I installed the Unity bootstrapper for ASP.NET MVC in my project, and your WebActivator package is one of the dependencies. I see that WebActivator is implemented as an attribute class called WebActivatorEx.PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute. However, there already exists a PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute class in the System.Web namespace of .NET Framework 4.5. Is there any significant difference between the two?

[davidebbo]

WebActivator is actually built on top of the ASP.NET attribute (see here).

The main difference is that it provides more features. The readme covers some of these items.