.net core and IIS application pools

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With ASP.NET, there's DLL "mirroring", so one can update a DLL without stopping the application pool for the website.

With .NET Core apps, it does not appear that such mirroring occurs (so I've read on SO when I researched this issue) and I'm constantly having to stop the AP, update the DLL, then restart the AP.

Very annoying. Any solutions for this? Is there a command line call to stop/start the Application Pool?

What I have tried:

Researched the problem but never found a solution.

Posted 1-Jul-20 4:47am

Marc Clifton

Updated 3-Jul-20 0:35am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2020-07-03T00:35:00

I tend to use the app_offline.htm file, which takes the application off-line, combined with a batch file.

app_offline.htm:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Application Offline</title>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60" />
    
    <style type="text/css">
    div
    {
        background-color: #ffc;
        padding: 10px;
        border: 1px solid black;
    }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        This application is currently offline. Please try again in a few moments.
    </div>
</body>
</html>

update.bat:

BAT

@ECHO OFF

REM Take a backup of the site:
robocopy .\WWW .\_bak /Z /E /MIR

REM Take the site off-line:
xcopy app_offline.htm .\WWW\ /Y

REM Pause for 5 seconds to wait for the app to unload:
ping localhost -n 5 > NUL

REM Copy in the new files:
robocopy .\_staging .\WWW /XF app_offline.htm /Z /E /MIR

REM Bring the application back online:
del .\WWW\app_offline.htm