c# - Unload event for the default Application Domain?

Question

Is there an Unload event, or any event, notification, message, mechanism, or hook, that i can use to be notified before the "default" application domain is unloaded?

i have code that needs to know when the application domain (almost always the default domain) is ending.

Note: i don't know what kind of application a developer will be creating when he uses my code. It could be:

• a console application
• a WinForms application
• an ASP.net application
• an ASP.net web-site
• Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW) COM object
• a Windows Explorer shell extension
• or a Windows Service

Either way, i need to know when the domain is closing, so i can do some "stuff". And i am not going to require the user to call any sort of "Shutdown" or "Cleanup" method. (Also, suggesting that the user be required to call a method themselves doesn't answer the question: which is about being notified when the app domain i'm running in is shut down).

See also

• Unload event for the default AppDomain?
• How to get notified before static variables are finalized

Answer 1

i forgot to cross post my own answer from my other slight variation of this question. Ultimately, the answer came from an answer by M.A. Hanin.

There is no DomainUnload, but there is a ProcessExit:

class Contoso
{
   //constructor
   public Contoso()
   {
      //...

      //Catch domain shutdown (Hack: frantically look for things we can catch)
      if (AppDomain.CurrentDomain.IsDefaultAppDomain())
         AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit += MyTerminationHandler;
      else
         AppDomain.CurrentDomain.DomainUnload += MyTerminationHandler;
   }

   private void MyTerminationHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
      //The domain is dying. Serialize out our values
      this.Dispose();
   }

   ...
}

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