howto deploy new versions of "up and running" web services ???

[Antonio Lopez Arredondo]

I have some web services running in a production server.
meanwhile I develop new versions in a dev environment.
what should I do to deploy the new versions of "up and running" web service
?

I cannot simply overwrite the existing DLL because is locked by ASP.NET.
I tried to stop IIS and even stop asp_wp.exe but the DLLs are still locked.

any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
ant.

 

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

this should not be true.
Something else is locking the DLL.

ASP.NET uses shadow-copying to avoid the situation you describe.
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/doc/deployment.aspx#codereplacement

But maybe the situation is more complicated that just a simple DLL.
What is the path of the DLL you want to replace? what is the path to the
vroot?


-Dino