How to listen to IIS shutdown event in ASP.NET

Question

I have in my ASP.NET static variable that flushes itself to DB every X insertions. Problem is, if I publish the application , the IIS process is killed with all my static ma

Answer 1

You might not receive any notification that IIS is shutting down. Think of what will happen if the IIS AppPool crashes or what will happen if the server simply loses power.

You cannot rely on ever hearing about shutdown events. If IIS wants to shut down, it's not necessarily going to notify your application. I recommend you re-think your writebuffering/caching scenario - only keep in memory the data that you can afford to lose.