IIS 5.1 and highly isolated virtuals

Upon creating a virtual that points to an asp.net (c#)
path, I set the application to "Highly Isolated". I
noticed that in component manager it created a new
component "IIS-{Default//Root/MyApp}" as expected.

I also have the main site highly isolated and it shows up
in component manager as "IIS-{Default//Root}".

What I'm confused about is this. If I hit a page on the
root of site, I can see in component manager the
component corresponding to "IIS-{Default//Root}" starts
up and has a pid associated with a dllhost.exe. As
expected.

However, when I hit page in the virtual MyApp dir,
instead of starting the "IIS-{Default//Root/MyApp}" in
component manager, it launches a new aspnet_wp.

I'm confused by this. Is it because it's a .net app?
What I don't like about it is if I have to debug a dll it
was always easier to look in mts to see the pid of the
application, whereas now I have all these aspnet_wp apps
and have no easy view of which one corresponds to which
virtual dir without loading a dll spy.

Thanks for any info on this.

Hi Peter,

In IIS 5, any .NET application will run in an ASPNET_WP process. As far as
I know, there is no way to change this. IIS 6 keeps all content in one
process (w3wp.exe). The below article has a lot more information on the
ASPNET_WP process and how it works.

317012 INFO: Process and Request Identity in ASP.NET
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317012" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317012</a>

Hope this helps!

Kyle Terns, MCSD [MSFT]

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| Upon creating a virtual that points to an asp.net (c#)
| path, I set the application to "Highly Isolated". I
| noticed that in component manager it created a new
| component "IIS-{Default//Root/MyApp}" as expected.
|
| I also have the main site highly isolated and it shows up
| in component manager as "IIS-{Default//Root}".
|
| What I'm confused about is this. If I hit a page on the
| root of site, I can see in component manager the
| component corresponding to "IIS-{Default//Root}" starts
| up and has a pid associated with a dllhost.exe. As
| expected.
|
| However, when I hit page in the virtual MyApp dir,
| instead of starting the "IIS-{Default//Root/MyApp}" in
| component manager, it launches a new aspnet_wp.
|
| I'm confused by this. Is it because it's a .net app?
| What I don't like about it is if I have to debug a dll it
| was always easier to look in mts to see the pid of the
| application, whereas now I have all these aspnet_wp apps
| and have no easy view of which one corresponds to which
| virtual dir without loading a dll spy.
|
| Thanks for any info on this.
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