How to prevent an ASP.NET application restarting when the web.config is modified?
Actually, the first two answers are incorrect. It is possible, and quite easy, to prevent this recycling from happening, and this feature has been available since at least IIS6. Method 1 (system wide) Change the DWORD registry setting for HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\ASP.NET\FCNMode to the value 1, which will disable all file change notifications. Don’t be confused by … Read more