How to Start/Stop Default Web Site and Application Pools in IIS7 programmatically

Question

How to Start/Stop the Default Web Site and any Application Pool of the IIS7 programmatically in C#?

Answer 1

This sounds like something that you'd want to use WMI for. THe IIsWebServer class would probably be a good place to start looking, you can find documentation for that here. And here's a codeproject article for stopping and starting sites in C#.