I got an email with some questions around application domains, application pools and unhandled exceptions from a developer that was frequently seeing his website crash, and also had some related issues with session loss in his application. I have written before about unhandled exceptions and session loss due to appdomain restarts but I thought his questions would serve as a nice refresher. From what i read, my understanding is that a website has an app pool associated with it. This app pool leads to the creation of a w3wp.exe process. Inside this app pool/w3wp.exe process, an application domain is created. Tess: This is correct. In IIS you can create different application pools that have different healthmonitoring settings, run under different...(read more) ...
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