How to unload AppDomain created by CreateApplicationHost()?

[Vlad Hrybok]

Hi,

I noticed that releasing the reference ot the returned by
CreateApplicationHost() is not enough to free memory taken by AppDomain
created by CreateApplicationHost(). I have to created and destroy ASP.NET
AppDomains on a fly without terminating the proccess. I want to get a
reference to the AppDomain object created by CreateApplicationHost() so I
could call AppDomain.Uload(), but can't find any information about it.

Will appreciate a snippet illustrating how to get a hold of the new
AppDomain from the thread that called CreateApplicationHost().

Thank you,
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Vlad Hrybok
http://UltiDev.com

[Vlad Hrybok]

Never mind, I've figured it out.

Since CreateApplicationHost() creates a host object in the new domain, it's
enough to just create a method in the host class that returns current
AppDomain. It should look like this:
public AppDomain GetAppDomain()
{
return Thread.GetDomain();
}

Once ASP.NET domain is not needed anymore, it's possible to call
AppDomain.Unload(_host.GetAppDomain());

Weird things is that none of the examples showing how to use
CreateApplicationHost() mentions how to force ASP.NET appdomain unloading,
even if the domain will get unloaded eventually on its own after the
application is unloaded.

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Vlad Hrybok
http://UltiDev.com