How to stop an application [Answered]RSS

• • Reply
  iLens

  Member

  3 Points

  56 Posts

  How to stop an application

  Jan 12, 2016 09:12 AM|iLens|LINK

  I have an application where each user's interaction with the site takes many pages and lasts up to 10 minutes. It runs 24/7 in its own apppool.

  As the user progresses through the pages, I store the data they provide in the session state.

  I have disabled automatic recycling to avoid the session state getting destroyed mid-interaction, and I've tried to schedule a recycle at a specific time (4am on Tuesdays) with a timer in the Application.Start event. I've tried many approaches from different forums - currently HttpRuntime.UnloadAppDomain(). The Application.OnEnd and  Application.Start events fire and the code runs, but the "old" version of the app seems to continue running. Eventually the site goes non-responsive.

  How can I programatically cause the app to stop and then restart as if the application pool had recycled?

• • Reply
  TechView

  Participant

  1779 Points

  848 Posts

  Re: How to stop an application

  Jan 13, 2016 03:10 AM|TechView|LINK

  If you want to set duration in the app pool, this would be recommended and hopefully helpful too:
  
  https://www.iis.net/configreference/system.applicationhost/applicationpools/add/recycling?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C6936134746
  
  And to do it programmatically, follow the below links:
  
  http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26430/Recycling-IIS-application-pools-programmatical
  
  http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2013/08/how-to-manage-iis-application-pool.html
  
  http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2007/Jan/17/Programmatically-listing-getting-and-setting-Application-Pools
  
  

  Helping others is to provide help to yourself. Mark as answer, if the solution helps.
  
  TechView
• • Reply
  Chris Zhao

  All-Star

  17642 Points

  3510 Posts

  Re: How to stop an application

  Jan 13, 2016 08:46 AM|Chris Zhao|LINK

  Hi,iLens

  The following code examples add an application pool named Contoso to IIS 7 server, then set the application pool to daily recycle at 3:00 A.M.

     private static void Main()
     {
        using (ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager())
        {
           Configuration config = serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration();
           ConfigurationSection applicationPoolsSection = config.GetSection("system.applicationHost/applicationPools");
           ConfigurationElementCollection applicationPoolsCollection = applicationPoolsSection.GetCollection();
           ConfigurationElement addElement = applicationPoolsCollection.CreateElement("add");
           addElement["name"] = @"Contoso";
           ConfigurationElement recyclingElement = addElement.GetChildElement("recycling");
           ConfigurationElement periodicRestartElement = recyclingElement.GetChildElement("periodicRestart");
           ConfigurationElementCollection scheduleCollection = periodicRestartElement.GetCollection("schedule");
           ConfigurationElement addElement1 = scheduleCollection.CreateElement("add");
           addElement1["value"] = TimeSpan.Parse("03:00:00");
           scheduleCollection.Add(addElement1);
           applicationPoolsCollection.Add(addElement);
           serverManager.CommitChanges();
        }
     }
  

  More information, please see here.

  Best Regards,

  Chris Zhao