SOLVED: How to Force IIS to load a certain version of the .NET CLR
Micky McQuade turned me on to some code (from MSPSS) to solve my How to FORCE IIS to load a certain version of the CLR/.NET Framework. Greg Menounos also mentioned this solution in the comments.
PROBLEM: As discussed before, you can't use requiredRuntime or any .config changes (any that you ought to) to influence what version of the .NET Framework gets loaded into the IIS worker process. If you are using a .NET object as a COM object within Classic ASP, you'll always get the very latest .NET Framework installed on the machine. The values associated with the (fake) COM Object in the Registry are ignored. NOTE, this problem in with IIS/ASP/ASP.NET. If you're doing other things like calling .NET objects from VB6 Clients or something like that, you can always create a .exe.config and influence things with requiredRuntime like I talked about here.
SOLUTION: The solution is a clever hack. What's the first opportunity to "jump in" and affect IIS? When the ISAPI Filters are loaded. Which ISAPI Filter method is called only once? Why GetFilterVersion(), in fact.
This is one of those 'slap your forehead' solutions because it makes sense when you hear it, but it sounds SO tedious when you come up with it and have to actually sully your nails with C++ again. Sigh, I coded in C++ for 8 years and now not only have I forgotten my ninja skills but I feel slightly dirty when I'm back in there.
DISCLAIMER: This code of course assumes that there isn't some other higher-priority ISAPI filter doing crazy stuff in .NET. Unlikely, but worth mentioning. It's also totally unsupported, and you didn't get it here. In fact, you don't know where you got it. Who is this? What are you doing here? Move along, nothing to see here! No warranty expressed or implied as I didn't write it. Don't bug Micky or ask MS about it. There's also no guarantee that this, or anything like this, is a solution for your problem(s).
But it's interesting to read.
BOOL CNativeISAPIFilter::GetFilterVersion(PHTTP_FILTER_VERSION pVer)
{
LPWSTR pszVer = L"v1.1.4322";
//or "svr" if you're on a multiproc box and you want the server GC in this process.
LPWSTR pszFlavor = L"wks";
ICorRuntimeHost *pHost = NULL;
HRESULT hr = CorBindToRuntimeEx(
//version
pszVer,
// svr or wks
pszFlavor,
//domain-neutral"ness" and gc settings - see below.
STARTUP_LOADER_OPTIMIZATION_SINGLE_DOMAIN | STARTUP_CONCURRENT_GC,
CLSID_CorRuntimeHost,
IID_ICorRuntimeHost,
(void **)&pHost);
// Call default implementation for initialization
CHttpFilter::GetFilterVersion(pVer);
// Clear the flags set by base class
pVer->dwFlags &= ~SF_NOTIFY_ORDER_MASK;
// Set the flags we are interested in
pVer->dwFlags |= SF_NOTIFY_SECURE_PORT | SF_NOTIFY_NONSECURE_PORT |
SF_NOTIFY_END_OF_NET_SESSION | SF_NOTIFY_END_OF_REQUEST;
// Set Priority
pVer->dwFlags |= SF_NOTIFY_ORDER_HIGH;
// Load description string
TCHAR sz[SF_MAX_FILTER_DESC_LEN+1];
ISAPIVERIFY(::LoadString(AfxGetResourceHandle(),
IDS_FILTER, sz, SF_MAX_FILTER_DESC_LEN));
_tcscpy(pVer->lpszFilterDesc, sz);
return TRUE;
}
File Attachment: NativeISAPI.zip (558 KB)
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