Hosting OpenRasta in a Windows process/ catching startup process

[Alec]

Hi all
My application based on Open Rasta should be able to be hosted in a
windows process as well in IIS, in both cases before run the OpenRasta
configuration process I need to initialize some resources in my
application, like load some assemblies, init db connection pooling and
that kind of stuff.
So my questions are:
1. How can configure OpenRasta to run in a windows process? how I
should bind the communication channel like the http port and what else
I need to do? if there is some example on this, could you please point
me to it?
2. In both cases: running in IIS or in a Windows process how do I
catch the start up process of the application so I can initialize my
app resources there, should I override some method? subscribe to some
event published for some object?
I'm sorry if these questions may be silly but I'm new in OpenRasta
Thanks in advance

[Scott Littlewood]

With regards to hosting OpenRasta in a windows service wrapper I have a very simple example of this using Topshelf to host the service and provide the service wrapper. https://github.com/scottlittlewood/OpenTop

With regards to performing initialisation one option is to put these as the first statements within the Configure() method of IConfigurationSource (inside the using block if using 2.0)