Application vs. AppDomain

Posted by: Scott Forsyths WebLog, on 02 Sep 2007 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

A question was asked on a forum that I frequent which I thought was worth writting a blog about. Q: What is the difference between an application and an Appdomain?  I understand from my research so far that an Appdomain is a container within which ASPX runs and that Apppool is a process that starts the w3wp.exe worker process within which ASP applications run. A: That's a good question.  Here are some key differences: An application is an IIS term, but it's one that ASP.NET utilizes. ...

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