quicker way to refresh dll in GAC other than IISreset?

[Tarren]

Hi:

My app is running the dll from the GAC. The only way I know to force the
app to use a freshly copied and redeployed dll is to run an IIS reset. Is
there a command in the GACUTIL or something similar that would clear out the
cached dll and force everything to use the new copy of the dll?

Thanks

 

[Scott Allen]

One of the drawbacks of using a GAC'ed assembly is that the .dll will
be locked by the ASP.NET worker process. I don't know of anyway to hot
swap the file.

 

[Brock Allen]

If this is a development-time nuisance, then yeah... this is a well known
problem since AppDomains load strongly named assemblies domain neutral, which
are not scoped to an AppDomain. If this is a live server then I'd wonder
why you're replacing a GAC assembly with the exact same version. I'm assuming
your situation is the former. Anyway, good description of the problem here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2004/08/05/208375.aspx

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen