ASP.NET restarts when a folder is created, renamed or deleted

Question

UPDATE -- process to replicate issue:

1) Create a website project at c:\\projects\\restart-demo

2) Add default web.config a

Answer 1

Enable ASP.NET Health Monitoring and look in the event log to see why the AppDomain restarted.

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I bet this is because you've used a web site project, instead of a web application project. Try to reproduce this with a web application project.

Also, do you have any anti-virus or indexing software running? Such software notices when folders are created and/or modified.