How to detect if the current application pool is winding up in IIS7.5 and Asp.Net 3.5+

Question

Well - exactly as the question subject states - any ideas on how you might do this?

I\'ve been looking over the objects in System.Web.Hosting but nothing is standing

Answer 1

Adding the actual code to do this:

public class RecycleWatcher : IRegisteredObject
{
    public static bool IsRecycling { get; private set; }

    public void Register()
    {
        HostingEnvironment.RegisterObject(this);
    }
    public void Stop(bool immediate)
    {
        IsRecycling = true;
    }
}

Then enable it by running

new RecycleWatcher().Register();

After that just check that property for IsRecycling to know if you are recyling or not.

if (RecycleWatcher.IsRecycling) DoSomething();