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:

Link

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

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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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