Appdomain recycles

[Chris van de Steeg]

In iis6 there is this feature to recycle your appdomain at certain
tresholds, great.

But I recently ran into strange problems when my appdomain was recycled.
When my application starts, it loops through all the assemblies it gets
from System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies(). This works great
when the application starts for the first time, I really do get all
assemblies that are in my bin-folder. However, when my worker-process
gets killed, the next application start will NOT return all the
assemblies in the bin folder. It will only return the assemblies that
are used up untill that moment. However, changing the bin folder,
somehow triggers a different recycle: this one DOES load all assemblies
from my bin folder.

Conclusion: there are 2 types of recycles

* one that does load all assemblies from ‘bin’ into the appdomain
as the application starts. And
* one that only loads the assemblies from ‘bin’ into the appdomain
as soon as they’re needed.

I didn’t exactly figure out what causes this, and why it is done so.
Does anyone know how to ensure all my assemblies are loaded at a recycle
also?

Regards,
Chris