Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Hosting Environment Features

A .NET application requires a hosting Windows process. Inside that Windows process you can host multiple .NET application domains. An application domain is the means for the .NET CLR to isolate the managed code from Windows. The CLR automatically creates one default application domain in each worker process where it is initialized in a process. The default application domain is not unloaded until the process in which it runs shuts down. The CLR controls the shutdown of the default application domain. In most hosts, no code is running inside the default application domain. Instead, hosts (or processes) create a new application domain so the application domain can be closed independently of the process. In a lot of ...