How to force an ASP.Net application to recompile

ForceAppRestart.cs

//As suggested at http://forums.asp.net/t/1569137.aspx/1
//This is an ugly hack but I needed a way to force the application to recompile on production server.
//Entity Framework was not updating cached values with the latest values from the db
//I tried many other suggested means of fixing this problem to no avail.
//This was a last resort. Has to be done within the context of an httpRequest object

System.IO.FileInfo fi = new System.IO.FileInfo(Server.MapPath("~/Web.config"));
fi.LastWriteTime = DateTime.Now;

//The hack changes the web.config's "last changed" date, which causes ASP.Net to recompile.
//Not pretty, but it works.