How to programmatically get sites list and virtual dirs in IIS 7?

Question

Does anybody know how to programmatically get the sites list and virtual dirs in IIS 7?

Answer 1

Check out this post - seems to be a brand-spanking new management API in the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace:

http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosag/archive/2006/04/17/MicrosoftWebAdministration.aspx

Here's a quick graphical overview from that blog post:

And here's a "The Gu" post on Cool new IIS7 Features and APIs

Something like this will find all the sites, their application and their virtual directories in your IIS7 server:

    static void Main(string[] args)     {         ServerManager mgr = new ServerManager();          foreach(Site s in mgr.Sites)         {             Console.WriteLine("Site {0}", s.Name);              foreach(Application app in s.Applications)             {                 Console.WriteLine("\tApplication: {0}", app.Path);                  foreach(VirtualDirectory virtDir in app.VirtualDirectories)                 {                     Console.WriteLine("\t\tVirtual Dir: {0}", virtDir.Path);                 }             }         }          Console.ReadLine();     } 

Answer 2

One important caveat to using the Microsoft.Web.Administration assembly is the code has to be running on a machine that has IIS7 installed.

When I was developing a system to load IIS7 sites into a webpage on my windows XP machine I discovered this limitation. The API is great, I just wished I could have used it.

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