Recycling aspnet_wp.exe a pain in the !@#$%

[John Lam]

I've been spending some time recently writing some ASP.NET authentication
code that relies on CAS to minimize the threat posed by luring attacks.
However, it's becoming, um, painful, to constantly have to recycle the
aspnet_wp.exe worker process via an IISRESET command every single time I
rebuild my app!

Is there some secret handshake that will disable GAC caching in IIS? During
development, I really don't need the perf benefits provided by
domain-neutral assemblies. It would make life much easier and speed the
compile-edit-debug cycle considerably.

Thanks
-John
[url]http://www.iunknown.com[/url]

[Lewis Wang [MSFT]]

Hi John ,

Thanks for your posting. I am checking this issue, and will get back to you
with my findings.

Best regards,
Lewis

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| Subject: Recycling aspnet_wp.exe a pain in the !@#$%
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| I've been spending some time recently writing some ASP.NET authentication
| code that relies on CAS to minimize the threat posed by luring attacks.
| However, it's becoming, um, painful, to constantly have to recycle the
| aspnet_wp.exe worker process via an IISRESET command every single time I
| rebuild my app!
|
| Is there some secret handshake that will disable GAC caching in IIS?
During
| development, I really don't need the perf benefits provided by
| domain-neutral assemblies. It would make life much easier and speed the
| compile-edit-debug cycle considerably.
|
| Thanks
| -John
| [url]http://www.iunknown.com[/url]
|
|
|

[Lewis Wang [MSFT]]

Hi John,

Please let me know why you have to recycle the aspnet_wp.exe worker process
via an IISRESET command every single time you rebuild the application. I
think It's not necessary to reset IIS when you rebuild the application.

I am looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,
Lewis
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| I've been spending some time recently writing some ASP.NET authentication
| code that relies on CAS to minimize the threat posed by luring attacks.
| However, it's becoming, um, painful, to constantly have to recycle the
| aspnet_wp.exe worker process via an IISRESET command every single time I
| rebuild my app!
|
| Is there some secret handshake that will disable GAC caching in IIS?
During
| development, I really don't need the perf benefits provided by
| domain-neutral assemblies. It would make life much easier and speed the
| compile-edit-debug cycle considerably.
|
| Thanks
| -John
| [url]http://www.iunknown.com[/url]
|
|
|

[MSFT]

Hi John,

I am not sure if I have understood the problem correctly. It looks to me
that you want GAC not cache a .NET Assembly. Is my understanding correct?

Actually, GAC is not controled by IIS. And all assembly in GAC have a
strong name. If your assembly doesn't have one, it wouldn't be added in
GAC. Additionally, you can manage the assembly in GAC with a utility
"gacutil.exe". For more information on this tool, you can refer to:

[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptools/htm[/url]
l/cpgrfglobalassemblycacheutilitygacutilexe.asp


Luke
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[John Lam]

Hi Luke,

Actually, the issue is that I want there to be a flag in ASP.NET that causes
ASP.NET to NOT load strong-named assemblies as domain-neutral.

I apologize if my references to the GAC caused you to misunderstand the
issue.

Try building an ASP.NET app that calls a strong-named assembly (don't put it
into the GAC). Then make a change to that assembly and see if you can just
rebuild the solution. You can't - you must do an IISRESET before you will
see the changes. This is due to the fact that the ASP.NET worker process
loads the strong-named assembly as domain-neutral. If this wasn't the case
(as per the "I'm developing the app now, so don't cache" flag that I'm
requesting), then the strong-named assembly will be flushed and a new
appdomain created.

-John
[url]http://www.iunknown.com[/url]


"MSFT" <lukezhan@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi John,
>
> I am not sure if I have understood the problem correctly. It looks to me
> that you want GAC not cache a .NET Assembly. Is my understanding correct?
>
> Actually, GAC is not controled by IIS. And all assembly in GAC have a
> strong name. If your assembly doesn't have one, it wouldn't be added in
> GAC. Additionally, you can manage the assembly in GAC with a utility
> "gacutil.exe". For more information on this tool, you can refer to:
>
>

[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptools/htm[/url]

> l/cpgrfglobalassemblycacheutilitygacutilexe.asp
>
>
> Luke
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>
> Get Secure! [url]www.microsoft.com/security[/url]
> (This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.)
>

[MSFT]

Hi John,

I tested the problem with VS.NET 2002 and IIS 5 and I haven't found the
same problem. When we add a reference (for example, a.dll) to a project, it
will copy a.dll to its Bin folder. When we compile the refered project, it
will write to local bin folder, not the ASPNET appliaction's Bin folder.
Therefore, there wouldn't be a conflict. Did you put all assembly in one
Bin folder?

Luke
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! [url]www.microsoft.com/security[/url]
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