Recycle app pool in a ASP.NET web request

Question

Is it possible to recycle the application pool of an ASP.NET application in a http request received to the application? I would like to have a method the recycle the application pool easily without having to login to the machine.

Answer 1

A usual way to restart an ASP.NET application is calling:

HttpRuntime.UnloadAppDomain();

So place the call into your page or handler.

Answer 2

There are several ways to recycle app pool

 Process process = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
 process.Kill(); // This will kill your worker process

OR

 HttpRuntime.UnloadAppDomain(); // Kill app domain. Next request will restart the app domain

OR Programatically touch your web.config and that should also trigger app recycle