Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Refresh System Environment Variables for IIS and Visual Studio

Environment variables can sometimes be a pain to deal with. Since environment variables are often cached or loaded only once, a change might not be immediately reflected in the application that we intend to apply them to.

Problem

 In my case, I need to debug our ASP.NET application and need the new environment variables. 

  • Restarting the Visual Studio itself was not enough. 
  • I tried to kill the worker process and that doesn't help either. 

Solution

At the end, I tried one thing that works which I got from a forum, i.e., enter the following command on command prompt or PowerShell run in admin mode:

iisreset

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