>>>When a new EXE is ready to deploy on the live system, I just put the EXE in a >certain directory and run Web Connection's Update EXE routine, which shuts >down any running instances, copies in the EXE, and the site keeps on running...
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>>I believe this only works using COM-based. If you are using file-based you have to kill the process manually. I use a kill (quit) method in my app to handle this. Then you can go to the ~UpdateEXE and ~StartEXE urls.
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>Yeah, but I've never had to shut down IIS. Maybe I'm just lucky.

I mean, I run file-based when developing, and I've never had to shut down IIS.