Lots of Free Images and Icons with Visual Studio 2008 Image Library

Microsoft has shipped a great image and icon library with Visual Studio 2008. This library is available at following location:-

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary.zip

Here is what is inside that zip file:-
You can use that icon free of cost in any of your projects. But there is one note which I found in extracted folder. Here is the text:-

As part of a visual language, the following images (or any part of the images) must be used in a manner consistent with the name of the image file.

Hopefully it will help you. Happy coding !!!

How to restart your web application

Generally we all use cache to improve our website's performance. Caching is really useful when we are frequently displaying data which rarely requires changes. But, sometime client request an immediate change in cache entries and we have no option to manually run IISReset or change the contents of web.config file to clear all the cache.

In below code, I am sharing different approaches which can help you:-

namespace Utilities.General

{

    public static class Utility

    {

        public static bool RestartAppPool()

        {

            //First try killing your worker process

            try

            {

                //Get the current process

                Process process = Process.GetCurrentProcess();

                // Kill the current process

                process.Kill();

                // if your application have no rights issue then it will restart your app pool

                return true;

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                //if exception occoured then log exception

                Logger.Log("Restart Request Failed. Exception details :-" + ex);

            }

 

            //Try unloading appdomain

            try

            {

                //note that UnloadAppDomain requires full trust

                HttpRuntime.UnloadAppDomain();

                return true;

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                //if exception occoured then log exception

                Logger.Log("Restart Request Failed. Exception details :-" + ex);

            }

 

            //Finally automating the dirtiest way to restart your application pool

 

            //get the path of web.config

            string webConfigPath= HttpContext.Current.Request.PhysicalApplicationPath + "\\web.config";

            try

            {

                //Change the last modified time and it will restart pool

                File.SetLastWriteTimeUtc(webConfigPath, DateTime.UtcNow);

                return true;

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                //if exception occoured then log exception

                Logger.Log("Restart Request Failed. Exception details :-" + ex);

            }

 

            //Still no hope, you have to do something else.

            return false;

        }

    }

}


To implement above case you can create a dummy page i.e. RestartApplication.aspx or add a querystring parameter to your existing page like Home.aspx?RestartPool=true. Feel free to share your thoughts with me. Happy Codding !!!