Restarting a Web Service without restating the IIS

[Gilad Kapelushnik]

Hi Is there a way to restart a single Web Service without restarting the whole IIS ? At the moment the way this is done by manualy killing the process aspnet_wp.exe. By killing aspnet_wp.exe the webservices are restarted, is there are way to restart a single webservice even if there are other web services running under the same aspnet_wp.exe ? How do I run a webservice under it own aspnet_wp.exe ? Thanks Gilad.

[Guffa]

Why do you want to restart it? If you don't want to restart the process, what is it that you want to restart, really?

GiladKapel wrote:

How do I run a webservice under it own aspnet_wp.exe ?

That depends a bit on what version of IIS you are using. Basically, though, you just set the application to run as an isolated process, e.g. setting the application protection level to the highest setting. --- b { font-weight: normal; }

[Gilad Kapelushnik]

Guffa wrote:

Why do you want to restart it? If you don't want to restart the process, what is it that you want to restart, really?

Other than the web service I'm also running a "Watch Dog" service that monitors the web service and restarts it if the web service failes to replay\function for any unknown reason. I need the watch dog service to progrematicly restart the service. The watch dog is a very simple app and its chances of failing are very low. Gilad.