how to manually stop aspnet_wp ??

[Guest]

I have the worker process holding onto a COM DLL, preventing me from
re-building it.

How should I be shutting down the worker process for debugging? Killing
the process seems heavy-handed.

 

[Craig Deelsnyder]

I have the worker process holding onto a COM DLL, preventing me from
re-building it.

How should I be shutting down the worker process for debugging? Killing
the process seems heavy-handed.

a couple ways; mainly if you shut down the web server, it will bring down
aspnet_wp as well:

net stop w3svc
net start w3svc

-OR-

iisreset