Developing Web Applications

Configuring an Isolated Process

By default, an IIS 5.0 application runs in the IIS 5.0 process. If you decide to run your application as a separate process, you can set this up with Internet Services Manager.

To run an application as a separate process

Right-click the application root directory, then click Properties.
Select the Virtual Directory tab. (You must first create an application for your virtual root, if you haven’t already done so. For more information, see ASP Best Practices in this book.)
Select the Run in separate memory space check box, and click OK.

Internet Services Manager automatically creates a Component Services package for your application. For example, if you were to configure the IIS 5.0 Help application to run in an isolated process, a new Component Services package would be created, named IIS-{Default Web Site//Root/IISHELP/}. Transactional components to be run within the context of this new process can be installed into this Component Services package by using Internet Services Manager.