I'm writing a Asp.Net Core application which should be able to update itself (replace its own binaries while running). This MSDN article describes shadow copying with the classical .Net framework,...

I am in the process of writing a PowerShell script for backing up a Windows computer using rsync. To this end, I am attempting to use WMI from said script to create a non-persistent Shadow copy wit...

Relating to Can I make the default AppDomain use shadow copies of certain assemblies?, it describes a working solution to activate shadow copying within the default AppDomain for a specific directo...

I'm using the VSS api to create some shadow copies of a volume and then access them using their UNC paths. Is it possible to get a list of some sort of just the things that changed between two cons...

My project(some kind of processing engine) is separated into 2 dlls: one with interface declarations and one with functionality.Usually the project is used by external Delphi project via COM techno...

I just started experimenting moq for unit testing my modules. Actually, the class for which I have to write an unit test uses Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location internally to determine a pa...

I already saw THIS and THIS question, but they are both a few years old and in my case there is maybe another solution at all: I have an ASP.NET MVC 5 application with a plugin system based on THIS...

Developing a VSS writer app: see this error during backup, initiated by windows backup tool, is there defined error codes for 2155348129 from Microsoft? The backup operation that started at '‎20...

There is ShadowCopy functionality in .Net to preserve file locking by copying assemblies. There are two properties: AppDomain.ShadowCopyFiles that uses AppDomainSetup AppDomainSetup.ShadowCopyFil...

Is there anyway to mark a folder (other than Bin folder) to be shadow copied by adding some configurations in web.config ? I don't think Application_Start be a good place for setting up AppDomainS...

I am trying to stop my application locking DLLs in my MEF plugin directory so that I can overwrite the assemblies at runtime (note I'm not actually trying to have MEF reload them on the fly, at the...

We have a minimal 'updater' exe that checks a remote URL for updates, downloads them and replaces files on disk prior to launching the real application. However if we want to replace the updater EX...

We've recently updated a fairly large ASP.NET website (~1500th alexa traffic ranking) to use VS2010 and .NET 4.0 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Since then, when we deploy new versions of the si...

from what I've understood so far, by reading this doc for instance : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404279.aspx, Shadow copy is a feature that allows the use of an assembly while current...

In my ASP.NET app, I'm attempting to add another directory to be have the DLLs in it shadow copied. The only method I found that will allow m to do this is AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetShadowCopyPat...

I'm trying to backup files on a server, but some of them are in use and cannot be opened. Instead, I'd like to open their shadow copy if the current copy is in use. How can I do this? For referenc...

I know when you set to true ,it will shadow copy the files.But what does shadow copy mean and why we need to shadow copy files?